The National Robotarium
The National Robotarium is the UK's centre for Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, based at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. It serves as a global research institute creating innovative solutions to global challenges through robotic, AI, and automated technologies. The institute works directly with industry to test and develop next-generation robotic systems.
Notable achievements
UK's premier robotics research facility; hosts annual UK Robotics Expo; robotics readiness workshops
Notable work
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
A hierarchical approach to imitation learning for manipulation tasks requiring time varying forces
Rishabh Shukla, Adithya Santhosh, Shaili Gandhi +2 more
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 2026
What Are We Actually Benchmarking in Robot Manipulation?
Tianchong Jiang, Xiangshan Tan, Samuel Wheeler +3 more
2026
DLO-Lab: Benchmarking Deformable Linear Object Manipulations with Differentiable Physics
Junyi Cao, Yian Wang, Ziyan Xiong +3 more
2026
DynaFLIP: Rethinking Robotics Perception via Tri-Modal-Dynamics Guided Representation
Jusuk Lee, Seungjae Lee, Jonghun Shin +6 more
2026
VLAConf: Calibrated Task-Success Confidence for Vision-Language-Action Models
Dehao Huang, Aoxiang Gu, Chengjie Zhang +5 more
2026
MIND: Multi-Scale Intent Diffusion for Text-Driven Physics-Based Humanoid Control
Bin Li, Ruichi Zhang, Han Liang +4 more
2026