Advanced Research and Invention Agency

And people are at least looking into this now.

So ARIA, that's the UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency.

They've got this project called Exploring Climate Cooling, and they're looking at different methods of cooling.

And one of them is this thermosiphons.

And as you said, it's not just verification hardware we're working on.

We work with ARIA, the UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency, to make brain implants and brain imaging systems, laser systems for imaging ice crystals in clouds, all sorts of fairly advanced hardware.

The frontier models... can contribute in like little chunks right now.

And Fable was really the first model that could contribute at all.

I also just wanted to mention some important breakthroughs in pack house automation.

So there is a program, uh, funded by the Advanced Research and Invention Agency, ARIA for short, and they're in grasping and manipulation in robotics.

So it's about developing technologies that can touch and feel soft surfaces and handle them, which is obviously important in fresh produce.

And according to Simon Pearson, that's kind of the next big important breakthrough that needs to be made in order to help reduce the manual labor requirement in pack houses, um, and to take automation to the next level.

Well, since we got back from England, I thought this story was interesting.

The UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency has awarded a 21 million contract to Prismatic, which is a BAE Systems subsidiary, to test whether a ground-based energy beam can keep a solar-powered stratospheric aircraft flying around the clock, including through dark northern hemisphere winters.

So wait, they're gonna beam power from the ground to charge the batteries of a drone?

Exactly, Tim.

Sarah Aldahari is a PhD researcher at University College London, working on underwater manipulation, perception and motion planning, with particular emphasis on enabling intelligent robotic systems to operate safely and effectively in complex marine environments.

And last but not least, Edith Clare Hall is a frontier specialist at the Advanced Research and Invention Agency, where she's helping to shape and accelerate radical scientific and technological breakthroughs that benefit everyone.

She was previously a PhD researcher at the University of Bristol and is part of the leadership team of Women in Robotics UK.

So without further ado, I'd like to invite each of the panelists to say hello and tell us their initial thoughts on how marine autonomy is perceived in their field.

is focusing on.

I'm Edith.

I'm at ARIA, the Advanced Research and Invention Agency.

And I work in the crosscut of robotics and physical AI.