Academic Partners
Led by the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, ORCA Hub is made up of a collaboration of the following UK universities:

Through our university partners ORCA brings together leading experts in the fields of:
- Sensing
- Signal processing
- Mapping and localisation
- Soft sensing and integration on manipulators
- Structural integrity monitoring
- Robot control
- Human-robot interaction
- Multimodal interfaces for autonomous systems in multiple domains
- Automated and adaptive motion planning
- Explainable AI
- Machine learning
- Autonomous systems
- Robot verification
- Asset and condition monitoring
Hub Management Team






Anna Kedzia
ORCA Hub Administrator
Co-Investigators



























Research Team

Dr. Stefano Albrecht
Research Associate

Dr. Simona Aracri
Research Associate

Paola Ardón Ramírez
PhD Student

Dr. Jamie Blanche
Research Associate

Yu (Tony) Cao
Research Associate

Yaniel Carreno
PhD Student

Dr. Kamil Cetin
Research Associate

Chris Dadswell
Research Associate
Dr. Paul Duckworth
Research Associate

Dr. Angelo Ferrando
Research Associate

Arnau Garriga Casanovas
Research Associate

Daniel Gordon
Research Associate

Dr. Josiah Hanna
Research Associate

Dr. Vladimir Ivan
Research Associate

Dr. Pouyan Khalili
Research Associate

Dr. Sanghyun Kim
Research Associate

Dr. Pierre Le Bras
Research Associate

Dr. Qian Li
Research Associate

Dr. Shuo Li
Research Associate

Dr. Alan Lindsay
Research Associate

Dr. Matt Luckuck
Research Associate

Dr. Tomasz Luczynski
Research Associate

Dr. Stefano Mariani
Research Associate

Dr. Carlos Mastalli Cadenas
Research Associate

Dr. Alistair McConnell
Research Associate

Dr. Peter McKenna
Research Associate

Joao Moura
Research Associate

Dr. Rahul Mourya
Research Associate

Dr. Vincent Page
Research Associate

Èric Pairet Artau
PhD Student

Dr. Fabio Papacchini
Research Associate

Dr. Milad Ramezani
Research Associate

Christian Rauch
Research Associate

Dr. David Robb
Research Associate

Dr. Tushar Semwal
Research Associate

Dr. Carlo Tiseo
Research Associate

Dr. Harun Tugal
Research Associate

Dr. Pawel Waszczuk
Research Associate

Dr. Osama Zaki
Research Associate

Chenyang Zhao
Research Associate

Dr. Xingyu Zhao
Research Associate
Lucy Martin - Former Head of Robotics, EPSRC:
"It is really important that we build this collaborative community between industry and academia to make sure that whatever the novel breakthrough is in science, that actually leads to real world products and services.”