World-Class Research
FOUNDING MEMBER OF NEW EPSRC UK-RAS NETWORK
Heriot-Watt became one of 12 founding members of the new EPSRC UK Robotics and Autonomous Systems Network (UK-RAS Network) alongside universities such as Oxford, Imperial College London and Bristol Robotics Lab. The initiative brings together the UK’s core academic capabilities in robotics innovation under national coordination for the first time. The Network will encourage academic and industry collaboration to accelerate the development and adoption of robotics and autonomous systems.
The network has strong support from major industrial partners, the Science Museum and professional engineering bodies including the Royal Academy of Engineering, IET and The Institute of Mechanical Engineers. Commenting on its establishment, the Minister for Universities and Science, Jo Johnson said: “Robotics and autonomous systems have huge growth potential for the UK as one of our Eight Great Technologies. By working collaboratively this network will help to accelerate growth of a high-tech sector and pave the way for new high-value, skilled jobs.”
Professor David Lane, Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics and Professor of Autonomous Systems Engineering at Heriot-Watt, commented: “Robots which can learn, adapt and take decisions, will revolutionise our economy and society over the next 20 years, across industry, in healthcare, transport and manufacturing. This new network will help to focus and support developments and ensure that we maintain a leading edge in this rapidly developing field.”
QUEEN’S ANNIVERSARY PRIZE FOR OIL AND GAS EXPERTISE
Heriot-Watt’s Institute of Petroleum Engineering has received a prestigious Queen’s Anniversary Prize, recognising its sustained pioneering work in innovation and research excellence, as the Institute celebrates its 40th anniversary.
The Queen’s
Anniversary Prizes 2015
For Higher and Further Education
The prize recognises how the Institute’s research and innovation activity spans exploration to production technology, and also harnesses its findings to enhance interdisciplinary work being carried out, including in medical research. It was awarded by the Royal Anniversary Trust, which works to promote world class excellence in UK universities and colleges.
University Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Richard A Williams OBE FREng, said: “Heriot-Watt University has a long heritage of leadership in innovation. Receiving the Queen’s Anniversary Award, one of the UK’s most prestigious national prizes for world leading research, is a great honour for the staff, students and alumni at the University and a very special accolade in this 40th year since the founding of the Institute of Petroleum Engineering.”
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