Edinburgh Centre for Robotics

robots have the potential to revolutionise the world's economy and society over the next twenty years, working for us, beside us and interacting with us. the robotics and autonomous systems area has been highlighted by the uk government in 2013 as one the 8 great technologies that underpin the uk's industrial strategy for jobs and growth. heriot-watt university (engineering and physical sciences, mathematical and computer sciences) and the university of edinburgh (informatics, engineering) are jointly offering an innovative 4 year phd training programme, drawing on our long standing record of postgraduate education in the robotics and autonomous systems area, and research supervision drawing on our established background in all of the above mentioned areas. this will provide individually tailored course and project portfolios during the first year of the programme, ensuring that all students will have a strong grounding in current theory, methods and applications, with flexibility for