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Centre for Assuring Autonomy

A partnership between Lloyd's Register Foundation and the University of York.

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Duration

This project's duration was 2017 - 2028

Value of grant

£13.9mil

Partner info

The University of York is one of the UK's leading universities, home to more than 20,000 students and 5,000 staff.

Advancing safety assurance of autonomous systems, AI, and robotics across the globe.

Overview

Following recommendations from our Foresight Review into Robotics and Autonomous Systems in 2018, Lloyd’s Register Foundation and the University of York established a partnership which is now the Centre for Assuring Autonomy, a £10mil partnership dedicated to pioneering research and innovation at the intersection of AI and safety. Through partnerships with industry leaders, academia, and policymakers, they are driving forward the responsible and ethical deployment of AI and autonomous systems, producing research that has been translated into guidance that has been accessed around the globe.

Experts from the Centre, such as its Director, Professor John McDermid OBE FREng, have helped influence the international political landscape around AI, including reviewing the UK Government's paper 'Frontier AI: Capabilities and Risks' and giving evidence to the House of Lords' Communication and Digital Committee, and have contributed to new standards on autonomous systems, including the draft validation framework from the British Standards Institution (BSI) for the use of AI in healthcare.

The Centre for Assuring Autonomy works across multiple domains, including maritime, transport and health and social care. Their state-of-the-art practical guidance is freely available to anyone developing, regulating or researching the safety of robotics and autonomous systems.

Visit the Centre for Assuring Autonomy website for more information. If you would like to collaborate with the Centre for Assuring Autonomy, contact our programme manager below.

The potential for AI and robotics to impact people's safety can only truly be realised if we have confidence in those systems. The Centre for Assuring Autonomy is developing concepts, models and methods for assuring the safety of robotics, autonomous systems and AI.

Ana MacIntosh Director of Strategic Programmes, Centre for Assuring Autonomy

Contact our Programme Manager

Muntasir Hashim

Programme Manager

Muntasir has a background in Engineering and Materials Science, with extensive experience leading R&D and product development across hardware, software, and semiconductors.

 

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