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Essex Innovation Centre

The Essex Innovation Centre (essex.ai) operates as a long-term strategic partnership between the University of Essex and TWI, with the aim of developing a financially sustainable research facility for one of the hottest research topics globally, drawing on Essex's existing strengths to complement and underpin the applied research and development activities of TWI.

Objectives 

• Create a shared research and technology facility

•  Undertake joint research programmes

• Secure a portfolio of research funding from external sponsors

• Build a mutual understanding of future research challenges and opportunities

• Develop the next generation of technologies and scientists

Core areas

• Soft robotics incuding grasping control, reinforcement learning, skills acquisition and transfer

• Machine learning algorithm development for image integration, data interpretation and robotic control

• Sim2Real - transferring learned agents in simulation in a real setup environment

• Robotic systems and software integration

• Process automation and optimisation

• Lifecycle (cost) analysis frameworks