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Innovate UK is offering opportunities for individuals to apply on behalf of their business to attend a 5-day residential innovation lab in September 2018. This innovation lab will allow delegates to work in teams to generate innovative and commercially-viable ideas in the following areas:

• robotic structural capabilities
• reformable structures
• long-range and beyond visual line-of-sight operations
• electronics, sensors and photonics for extreme environments
• AI, autonomy and situational awareness
• mission planning and risk management
• systems engineering, including methodologies, verification and validation tools
• security, reliability, safety and trust
• collaborative robotics and AI systems
• long endurance operations
• modules that support increased dexterity
• locomotion platforms that work extreme environments

In the second stage of the competition, teams that attended the innovation lab will have the opportunity to apply for a share of up to £15 million grant funding for their project.

Please see below a summary of the competition:

Deadline for application: 11 July 2018

Number of places available : 20 to 30

Eligibility: a business, academic, charity, public sector or research and technology organisation based in the UK and intend to carry out the project and exploit the results in the UK

Residential dates : 10 September 2014 – 14 September 2018

Second stage proposal award : £2m – £6m

Second stage proposal start date : January 2019

Please see this link for full details of this funding opportunity.