Underwater robots given European funds boost

Academic work to improve water quality and develop robots with a sense of touch is to receive more than £10 million in European funding.

Three projects at the University of Glasgow have been awarded funding of £10.3m as part of the European Commission’s Innovative Training Networks project.

A collaboration between the university’s engineering school, geography and maths departments has been funded to develop new technology for monitoring water quality through sensor systems, autonomous underwater robots and drones.

The Neutouch project will also involve the university with colleagues in Germany, Spain, Sweden, Italy, Switzerland and Iceland to design sensing devices and algorithms to improve the tactile perception in robots and prostheses.

The Evodrops project at has received £3m to study directed evolution.