A research hub that brings together robotics experts from the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University and works with industry.
Sheffield Robotics is a research centre rather than a company. It brings together robotics researchers from the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University with people from industry. Its research themes, listed on its website, are cyber-physical and urban infrastructures, health and social care, manufacturing robotics, and trustworthy autonomous systems. That covers everything from robots in factories to machines that help people with care needs, and the question of how to make autonomous systems safe and trusted. It offers laboratories and equipment that its members and partners can use.
Its stated aim is "to make Sheffield a leading hub for robotics research". The site lists a facility called the Robot Foundry, a Human Robot Interaction Lab and a Sound and Motion Capture Lab. Members include researchers such as Professor Tony Prescott, who has written about the psychology of artificial intelligence. The centre also links to the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), so research can move toward real manufacturing problems. The site says the University hosted the Living Machines 2025 conference, which looks at robots inspired by biology. We did not find a founding date.
The centre is in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, with the University of Sheffield at Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN, and Sheffield Hallam University as the second partner. It has also produced spin-out companies. One is Cyberselves, which works on remote-controlled robots and also appears in this collection. Yorkshire news reports around the centre's launch described it as intended to help create a robot industry in the region, though we only saw headlines and did not read those articles.
The sources we read do not describe culture or staff numbers, so we do not describe either. What the website does show is an open, shared approach, with a People directory, access to labs for outside organisations and a clear route for businesses to get in touch. Because the centre works across two universities, it brings different views together, from computer science to psychology and engineering.
Careers connected to this kind of research centre include university lecturers and researchers, research engineers, laboratory technicians, and PhD students, as well as industry roles in the companies that work with it. The site says undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in robotics, mechatronics and AI are available at the partner universities, as well as PhD opportunities. If you are choosing a university course or wondering what robotics research looks like, this is a good place to see it. Please note that this is a research centre, so check how it fits your own plans.
Website: www.sheffield.ac.uk/sheffieldrobotics
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