Ever wanted to make a coffee from an extremely large distance away, or maybe you left the oven on at home, or perhaps, you would like to defuse an extremely dangerous explosive device located in a densely populated area but seems to be very far away?No need to worry, as developed in the Real Robotics […]
The global online premiere of Real Robotics’ feature-length documentary, “Brains, Cranes and Other Ordeals” takes place at 7pm GMT on November 24th 2020 on the Real Robotics YouTube channel. The film documents the Real Robotics team in their bid to win the Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge (MBZIRC) hosted in Abu Dhabi in February 2020. […]
Real Robotics Team at the University of Leeds has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with autonomous robots for on-demand intelligent precision disinfection. The robots, developed by researchers in the Self-Repairing Cities project at the Universities of Leeds, Birmingham, Southampton and UCL, are equipped with onboard sensing and computation power that enables them to navigate, identify […]
The Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge (MBZIRC) is a biennial international robotics competition that “aims to inspire future robotics through innovative solutions and technological excellence.” There were three challenges in the 2020 competition, two of which complemented the work being done by the self repairing cities team. More details about the challenges for the […]
We have been operating for many years as an almost “anonymous lab” tucked away in a corner of the Mechanical Engineering building at Leeds University. In 2020, the team and I decided to name the lab Real Robotics and create a website to document our projects, share our experiences and hopefully one day, become […]
