Our mission is to understand the science, engineering and social role of robotics and embedded intelligence. Our multidisciplinary approach aims to create autonomous devices capable of working independently, with each other, or with us in our human society.

Launched in December 2005 the Bristol Robotics Laboratory is a collaborative research partnership funded by the University of Bristol, the University of the West of England and HEFCE. Under the direction of Professor Chris Melhuish the laboratory is an evolution of the Intelligent Autonomous Systems Laboratory (IAS)