Venture Café Manchester: Deploying Advanced Robotics - Locomotion & Dexterity in Practice

This week's Thursday Gathering is about getting advanced robots out of the lab and into real work: the progress in actuation, sensing and control behind better locomotion and dexterity, and what still blocks deployment. Dr Jenny Read, Programme Director for Adaptive Machines at ARIA, headlines, alongside roboticists, researchers and industry leaders the organisers haven't named yet. The usual Venture Café evening wraps around it, with open networking from 17:00 to 20:00 at Sister in the Renold Building. Powered by ARIA. Free, with registration on the Venture Café community platform. More details are still to come. Why go: Jenny Read leads ARIA's Adaptive Machines programme, so this is a rare chance to hear what a funder with serious money thinks is close to working in physical AI. Best for robotics and hardware founders, researchers eyeing a spinout and investors in the space.