We are the Academy of Robotics
See the journey that started as a small team from Aberystwyth in Wales, grow to become one of the UK’s most advanced autonomous vehicle technology companies. Today, our team are working on building Kar-go, the autonomous delivery vehicle.
In September 2016 after nearly two years of background work, planning and feasibility studies, the company Academy of Robotics Ltd was registered.
We built a functional autonomous vehicle with software able to drive itself unaided. Though functional, this was a hacked together prototype based on the Renault Twizy
Now partnered with NVIDIA as part of their Inception incubator, we built the software stack, api and most of the control systems for our vehicle. It is now testing in a virtual environment.
On July 4th 2019, The Goodwood Festival of Speed’s Future Lab hosted the Academy of Robotics for the unveiling of Kar-go, the revolutionary last mile autonomous delivery vehicle. Join the Duke of Richmond, members of the press, TV crews and invited guests were at the Goodwood Festival of Speeds Future Lab, where the vehicle was seen for the first time. The vehicle drove around Futurelab and at the iconic track Goodwood Track.
Eurovia will help accelerate the “training” of Kar-go’s navigation of unmarked UK by allowing access to digital camera data gathered by Eurovia’s fleet in the UK, which covers over 50,000km of UK roads.
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We had an early working prototype. This was a robot able to drive itself on unmarked roads and able to deliver a package.
We launched an investment round seeking 300K. This was to raise enough funding to be able to build a street legal prototype of our first product, Kar-go.
Our team expands, it now includes Paul Burgess the award winning designer. With a background of Motorsport and Carbon Composite design and engineering he was most recently with McLaren Cars. Paul will be Chief Engineer working with the team to make our final version of our vehicle.
Kar-go started touring the UK, where the vehicles unique design drew crowds in London and in Glasgow. Members of the press, public and invited guests came to see our remarkable invention
Martin Newman, the consumer champion, the retail expert with years of experience in retail and the customer journey invests in Academy of Robotics
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We received a 10 000 grant from Aberystwyth University through their Inventerprize Program as an award for innovation to be used as start-up capital.
Investment round raised and complete. Team starts work on the street legal version of our autonomous delivery vehicle, Kar-go.
The hardware prototype drives itself in the real world with over 99% autonomy. This was a critical phase now complete, we have now designed our own vehicle from scratch, with own control systems, AI and filed several patents around our technology
Academy of Robotics was shortlisted for the Mayor of London's London Business Awards as One To Watch, regonising excellence and its contribution to the autonomous car space
Founder William Speaks at Ai expo. It is a showcase of next generation technologies and strategies from the world of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data, an opportunity to explore and discover the practical and successful implementation of AI and Big Data in driving forward your business in 2020 and beyond.
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