The Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL) is a joint venture between the University of the West of England, Bristol, and the University of Bristol. BRL and is the leading and largest academic centre for multi-disciplinary robotics research in the UK with a core of 25 members and a further 25 associated staff. The laboratory has workshop and rapid prototyping facilities covering an area of over 1000sq.m.. BRL has strong links with the emerging advanced robotics manufacturing community, and also has regular contact with larger international organisations that have a robotics interest.
Main tasks
BRL will be responsible for the majority of the robotics aspects of BIOTACT. It will also play a leading role in integrating the project in terms of parallelisation, hardware acceleration, and robot embedding of computational models.
Research experience
BRL has a track record in developing autonomous robots with embedded intelligence. Members of BRL are involved in projects funded by a range of UK and EU sources studying human-robot interaction, energy autonomy, collective locomotion, tactile sensors and haptic feedback systems, motion tracking/positioning systems, swarming behaviour, dependability, wearable and pervasive systems, and bio-inspired architectures.
