The National Robotarium’s Robotics Readiness Workshops are designed to help you assess where your business stands in terms of robotic adoption and equip you with bespoke tools to guide your journey. Whether you’re just starting or looking to future-proof your operations, this workshop will provide the insights and practical steps needed to integrate robotics effectively. We’ll help you identify your current readiness level and outline next steps tailored to your business, ensuring a smooth transition into robotics adoption.
Note: This workshop, delivered as part of The National Robotarium’s Robotics Adoption Fund, will focus specifically on robotics for the agriculture sector.
Workshop format
Participation involves attending a half-day workshop at the National Robotarium.
Through interactive sessions, group discussions and real-world case studies, you will:
Discover how to adopt and scale robotics effectively.
Avoid common pitfalls and make smarter investments.
Leverage insights from The National Robotarium to address global industry challenges.
Eligibility
We’re seeking business leaders, operations managers, and decision-makers from companies of all sizes who are looking to understand how robotics can drive efficiency and innovation.
This workshop is also ideal for professionals involved in innovation or technical implementation, ensuring that those with a technical background in robotics can further explore its business applications.
After reviewing your application, our team will contact you and, if successful, invite you to complete a self-assessment taks ahead of the in-person workshop.
This workshop has been postponed and is no longer going ahead on 21 January. An alternative date will be announced shortly.
The National Robotarium’s Robotics Readiness Workshops are designed to help you assess where your business stands in terms of robotic adoption and equip you with bespoke tools to guide your journey. Whether you’re just starting or looking to future-proof your operations, this workshop will provide the insights and practical steps needed to integrate robotics effectively. We’ll help you identify your current readiness level and outline next steps tailored to your business, ensuring a smooth transition into robotics adoption.
Note: This workshop, delivered as part of The National Robotarium’s Robotics Adoption Fund, will focus specifically on robotics for textiles sectors.
Workshop format
Participation involves attending a half-day workshop at the National Robotarium.
Through interactive sessions, group discussions and real-world case studies, you will:
Discover how to adopt and scale robotics effectively.
Avoid common pitfalls and make smarter investments.
Leverage insights from The National Robotarium to address global industry challenges.
Eligibility
We’re seeking business leaders, operations managers, and decision-makers from companies of all sizes who are looking to understand how robotics can drive efficiency and innovation.
This workshop is also ideal for professionals involved in innovation or technical implementation, ensuring that those with a technical background in robotics can further explore its business applications.
Registration
Register via Eventbrite.
After reviewing your application, our team will contact you and, if successful, invite you to complete a self-assessment task ahead of the in-person workshop.
The National Robotarium’s Robotics Readiness Workshops are designed to help you assess where your business stands in terms of robotic adoption and equip you with bespoke tools to guide your journey. Whether you’re just starting or looking to future-proof your operations, this workshop will provide the insights and practical steps needed to integrate robotics effectively. We’ll help you identify your current readiness level and outline next steps tailored to your business, ensuring a smooth transition into robotics adoption.
Note: This workshop, delivered as part of The National Robotarium’s Robotics Adoption Fund, will focus specifically on robotics for the food and drink sector.
Workshop format
Participation involves attending a half-day workshop at the National Robotarium.
Through interactive sessions, group discussions and real-world case studies, you will:
Discover how to adopt and scale robotics effectively.
Avoid common pitfalls and make smarter investments.
Leverage insights from The National Robotarium to address global industry challenges.
Eligibility
We’re seeking business leaders, operations managers, and decision-makers from companies of all sizes who are looking to understand how robotics can drive efficiency and innovation.
This workshop is also ideal for professionals involved in innovation or technical implementation, ensuring that those with a technical background in robotics can further explore its business applications.
After reviewing your application, our team will contact you and, if successful, invite you to complete a self-assessment taks ahead of the in-person workshop.
The National Robotarium’s Robotics Readiness Workshops are designed to help you assess where your business stands in terms of robotic adoption and equip you with bespoke tools to guide your journey. Whether you’re just starting or looking to future-proof your operations, this workshop will provide the insights and practical steps needed to integrate robotics effectively. We’ll help you identify your current readiness level and outline next steps tailored to your business, ensuring a smooth transition into robotics adoption.
Note: This workshop, delivered as part of The National Robotarium’s Robotics Adoption Fund, will focus specifically on robotics for the marine and offshore energy sectors.
Workshop format
Participation involves attending a half-day workshop at the National Robotarium.
Through interactive sessions, group discussions and real-world case studies, you will:
Discover how to adopt and scale robotics effectively.
Avoid common pitfalls and make smarter investments.
Leverage insights from The National Robotarium to address global industry challenges.
Eligibility
We’re seeking business leaders, operations managers, and decision-makers from companies of all sizes who are looking to understand how robotics can drive efficiency and innovation.
This workshop is also ideal for professionals involved in innovation or technical implementation, ensuring that those with a technical background in robotics can further explore its business applications.
After reviewing your application, our team will contact you and, if successful, invite you to complete a self-assessment task ahead of the in-person workshop.
The National Robotarium’s Robotics Readiness Workshops are designed to help you assess where your business stands in terms of robotic adoption and equip you with bespoke tools to guide your journey. Whether you’re just starting or looking to future-proof your operations, this workshop will provide the insights and practical steps needed to integrate robotics effectively. We’ll help you identify your current readiness level and outline next steps tailored to your business, ensuring a smooth transition into robotics adoption.
Note: This workshop, delivered as part of The National Robotarium’s Robotics Adoption Fund, will focus specifically on robotics for start-up businesses.
Workshop format
Participation involves attending a half-day workshop at the National Robotarium.
Through interactive sessions, group discussions and real-world case studies, you will:
Discover how to adopt and scale robotics effectively.
Avoid common pitfalls and make smarter investments.
Leverage insights from The National Robotarium to address global industry challenges.
Eligibility
We’re seeking business leaders, operations managers, and decision-makers from companies of all sizes who are looking to understand how robotics can drive efficiency and innovation.
This workshop is also ideal for professionals involved in innovation or technical implementation, ensuring that those with a technical background in robotics can further explore its business applications.
After reviewing your application, our team will contact you and, if successful, invite you to complete a self-assessment task ahead of the in-person workshop.
From 22-26 September, world-leading experts and entrepreneurs from Scotland’s technology, science and enterprise ecosystem are joining forces to showcase the brightest and best of Scottish innovation for the Scottish Government’s National Innovation Week 2025.
The National Robotarium, the UK’s centre for robotics and Artificial Intelligence at Heriot-Watt University, is part of a number of initiatives that have been highlighted as pioneers in transformative technologies and industries of the future.
£5 million for advanced manufacturing
Scotland’s first National Innovation Week kicked-off at The National Robotarium with an announcement of £5 million investment package for high-growth and high-innovation industries.
Minister for Business Richard Lochhead MSP with Business Development Manager Lisa Farrell during a tour of the facility for Scotland’s National Innovation Week 2025
Minister for Business, Richard Lochhead MSP visited the facility to explore the latest robotics technologies and hear from Business Development Manager Lisa Farrell how the Scottish and UK Government’s initial investment into The National Robotarium has yielded much success in driving forward new technological solutions, as well as stimulating economic growth through its business acceleration programme. Following the tour, the Minister announced the new £5m funding package to bolster Scotland’s cutting-edge innovation industries, including more than £2m of support for new market clusters set out in Scotland’s Innovation Strategy, encompassing space, robotics and critical technologies like semiconductors and quantum systems.
Borderlands Deep Tech Accelerator Hub announces partners
The National Robotarium was named as a key delivery partner in a new Deep Tech Accelerator Hub being launched in the Scottish Borders.
Led by South of Scotland Enterprise (SOSE), the new Hub – based at Borders College Hawick campus – will empower businesses in the South of Scotland to harness the potential of robotics, space, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and deep tech, driving innovation in key sectors and supporting the emergence of new industries.
Borders College Hawick Campus | New STEM, ECO Room education learning centre | Photo Phil Wilkinson
The focus of the Hub will be to support innovation, growth, scale-up, and new business in key industries including textiles, agriculture, manufacturing and in Natural Capital. The Hub will also offer entrepreneurial support, pre and start up support, and provide a Research & Development space featuring a living lab.
It will also have expert technical support for companies who want to test how robotics and deep tech could benefit their businesses.
As well as The National Robotarium, other key partners include Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), Glasgow School of Art, and BE-ST, Scotland’s national innovation centre for construction and the built environment.
Stewart Miller, CEO of The National Robotarium, said:
“This is a very exciting time for deep-tech companies in Scotland with opportunities – like the Deep Tech Accelerator Hub and the recently announced Deep Tech Growth programme – rapidly accelerating to allow our innovative tech companies anchor and scale right here in Scotland.
“Deep tech is going to affect all our lives – and therefore strategic support and industry investment has to go beyond the central belt.
“As CEO of the UK’s National Robotarium, we are working with SOSE to enable the South of Scotland to not only benefit from transformational technologies like robotics, but to also be a driving force in their development, ensuring deep-tech advancement is equitable and fully impactful.”
Converge – Innovation Unlocked
The National Robotarium and Converge, Scotland’s national entrepreneurial programme for the university sector, have highlighted the critical need for ‘innovation pathways’ to fast-track new technologies from early-concept to global commercialisation.
The organisations have joined together to demonstrate how a joined-up approach to entrepreneurship can accelerate innovation and delivery significant economic and societal benefit. One example of that success is Bioliberty, a robotics start-up that is poised to revolutionise the rehabilitation and physical therapy sector leveraging soft robotics, gamification and AI.
Bioliberty have created Lifeglov for patient rehabilitation
From their shared home at Heriot-Watt University, Converge and The National Robotarium have each supported the medtech company as it evolved from a University of Edinburgh start-up into a business with global ambitions.
CTO and co-founder, Ross O’Hanlon understands the value of structured innovation support.
“As engineering graduates with an early-stage idea, we truly didn’t know what we didn’t know” says Ross, “so Converge helped to fill in those gaps with essential business training and support. The initial funding was also crucial in launching the business and preparing us for the next steps”.
Having successfully navigated the early stages of launching a business with Converge, Bioliberty then found its natural home at the National Robotarium, accessing office space, labs and specialist equipment to rapidly advance their innovative Lifehub Clinic technology. Now with FDA registration complete and flagship products ready, Bioliberty is partnering with top US rehabilitation institutions to revolutionise patient care.
The National Robotarium’s Robotics Readiness Workshops are designed to help you assess where your business stands in terms of robotic adoption and equip you with bespoke tools to guide your journey. Whether you’re just starting or looking to future-proof your operations, this workshop will provide the insights and practical steps needed to integrate robotics effectively. We’ll help you identify your current readiness level and outline next steps tailored to your business, ensuring a smooth transition into robotics adoption.
Workshop format
Participation involves attending a half-day workshop at the National Robotarium.
Through interactive sessions, group discussions and real-world case studies, you will:
Discover how to adopt and scale robotics effectively.
Avoid common pitfalls and make smarter investments.
Leverage insights from The National Robotarium to address global industry challenges.
Eligibility
We’re seeking business leaders, operations managers, and decision-makers from companies of all sizes who are looking to understand how robotics can drive efficiency and innovation.
This workshop is also ideal for professionals involved in innovation or technical implementation, ensuring that those with a technical background in robotics can further explore its business applications.
After reviewing your application, our team will contact you and, if successful, invite you to complete a self-assessment taks ahead of the in-person workshop.
The National Robotarium, the UK’s leading centre for robotics and Artificial Intelligence at Heriot-Watt University, is to be involved in the development of new products and services that help to advance the safe adoption of robotics in the public sector.
As part of round 11 of the CivTech Challenge, a Scottish Government programme that brings the public, private and third sectors together to create new innovations that can make people’s lives better, The National Robotarium and the Directorate for Digital aims to support the development of pioneering ideas that can enable greater adoption of new robotic and smart technologies in public organisations.
Any organisation, team or individual can respond to Challenge 11.8, ‘How can the public sector ensure a safe, secure and transparent adoption of robotics’, with the most promising solutions given the chance to access up to £1.2m in public contracts.
Full Challenge Information
Challenge Title:
How can the public sector ensure a safe, secure and transparent adoption of robotics?
Sponsored by:
The National Robotarium and Scottish Government, Directorate for Digital
Challenge Summary
Robotics is rapidly advancing and with ever-increasing capabilities there are massive opportunities to improve public services and so make people’s lives better. Unlike traditional IT systems robots interact with the physical world. This means that cyber-attacks can potentially result in not just data breaches, but also operational disruption, safety hazards and other harms. So, unless clear standards, assurance requirements and robust testing are established and in place, there are risks to robotics adoption at scale in the public sector supply chain.
So how can we ensure that robotic systems are resilient, trustworthy and capable of withstanding evolving cyber threats?
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The National Robotarium, the UK’s leading centre for robotics and Artificial Intelligence at Heriot-Watt University, is to be involved in the development of new products and services that help to advance the safe adoption of robotics in the public sector.
As part of round 11 of the CivTech Challenge, a Scottish Government programme that brings the public, private and third sectors together to create new innovations that can make people’s lives better, The National Robotarium and the Directorate for Digital aims to support the development of pioneering ideas that can enable greater adoption of new robotic and smart technologies in public organisations.
Any organisation, team or individual can respond to Challenge 11.8, ‘How can the public sector ensure a safe, secure and transparent adoption of robotics’, with the most promising solutions given the chance to access up to £1.2m in public contracts.
CEO Stewart Miller with Robotics Engineer Coena Das
Chief Executive Officer of The National Robotarium, Stewart Miller, said: “Our mission at The National Robotarium is to build the UK’s presence in the robotics sector, support new technology companies in getting their robotic products to market, and encourage businesses to increase the use of robotic technologies in their day-to-day operations.
“A major part of this involves ensuring that companies feel confident in having more robots working side-by-side with humans, customers or other users, and that requires robust cybersecurity that protects their programming and automation.
“Through the CivTech Challenge, we have the opportunity to support the rapid advancement of new products or services that can protect robots – and businesses – from even the most sophisticated cyber-attacks, enabling a smoother transition to robotics adoption.”
Innovators, entrepreneurs, startups, SMEs and established businesses interested in taking on the CivTech Challenge have until 2 September to submit their initial proposal via Public Contracts Scotland.
Hear Stewart discuss the challenge in more detail at: https://youtu.be/SrJM_IONP6E
European investors have gathered in Edinburgh to hear Scotland’s new advanced manufacturing strategy, alongside pitches from top-rated deep tech scaleups.
Investors and experts from the European Growth Deeptech Tech Tour joined key players from the Scottish tech ecosystem at the University of Edinburgh-led technology showcase EIE25.
Business champion Mark Logan presented Scotland’s Deep Tech Supercluster initiative, which aims to provide currently lacking scale-up pathways for innovative hardware companies rooted in advanced science and engineering.
The National Robotarium will co-lead the Supercluster in partnership with Scottish Enterprise and the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland, alongside Scottish universities including Edinburgh, Glasgow and Heriot-Watt. It will build a new large-scale advanced manufacturing facility in Renfrewshire and, from September, will add new high-value posts to existing facilities and services.
Mr Logan said: “The Deep Tech Supercluster creates additional pathways to scale for Scotland’s deep tech startups and spinouts. Complementary to the Techscaler initiative, it will provide facilities and services so that companies that require advanced manufacturing capabilities, in fields such as robotics and semiconductors, can grow.”
The Tech Tour event at The National Robotarium saw eight Scottish businesses pitch to European tech investors
Elsewhere at the joint EIE/Tech Tour event, 47 companies from across the world pitched for startup and scaleup investment, including eight Scottish businesses which were top rated out of 130 by the Tech Tour panel for their growth potential. Pitching companies raised a total of €1.3billion following the European Growth Deeptech Tech Tour event last year.
Deputy Principal for Business and Enterprise at Heriot-Watt, Professor Gill Murray introduced the event at The National Robotarium
Eight Scottish businesses came to The National Robotarium to pitch to Tech Tour and EIE investors. They were Bright Ascension (aerospace), Ceres Holographics (enhanced reality), IOtech Systems (industrial operating technologies), Novosound (ultrasound technology), pureLiFi (wireless communications), Skyrora (space rockets), Sofant Technologies (satellite communications) and Sunamp (thermal energy storage).
The session kicked-off with introductory speeches from Deputy Principal for Business and Enterprise at Heriot-Watt University, Professor Gill Murray, Director of Northface Ventures, David Farquhar, and Head of Digital Economy and Data Driven Business at The Scottish Government Stephen O’Neill.
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