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We are the Academy of Robotics

BUILDING THE WORLD'S FIRST ROADWORTHY AUTONOMOUS DELIVERY VEHICLE

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.

COMPANY FOUNDED
September 2016

In September 2016 after nearly two years of background work, planning and feasibility studies, the company Academy of Robotics Ltd was registered.

ROAD DRIVING PROTOTYPE
May 2017

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

DRIVERLESS SOFTWARE STACK
February 2018

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.

OFFICIAL LAUNCH AND UNVEIL
4th July 2019

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 UK PARTNERSHIP
December 2019

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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August 2020

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August 2020

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EARLY FUNDING GRANT
February 2017

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.

TEAM STARTS WORK
September 2017

Investment round raised and complete. Team starts work on the street legal version of our autonomous delivery vehicle, Kar-go.

PROTOTYPE  VERSIONS 2,0,  3.0, 4.0
May 2018 -May 2019

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

LONDON BUSINESS AWARDS
February 2020

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

AI BIG DATA EXPO
March 2020

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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August 2020

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September -December 2020

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