UK companies teaching machines to interpret images and video.
Growth London
Builds an AI video-generation platform that turns text into videos using synthetic avatars and voices, aimed at enterprise training and internal communications. Headquartered in London, having started as a UCL spinout.
Growth London
Builds autonomous robots and software that scan warehouses to create digital twins and generate inventory insights. Headquartered in London.
Early-stage London
Builds AI-powered humanoid robots on a wheeled base for industrial use in warehouses and factories. Headquartered in London, with its KinetIQ AI system handling perception and movement.
Early-stage Edinburgh
Uses satellite data and AI to map land cover, deforestation, and forest carbon stocks for carbon markets and supply-chain compliance. Headquartered in Edinburgh.
Established Edinburgh
Builds audio-driven 3D facial animation software and interactive AI-avatar technology used in games and real-time applications. Headquartered in Edinburgh.
Growth London
Builds computer-vision AI that assesses vehicle and property damage from photographs to automate insurance claims and repair estimates. Headquartered in London.
Early-stage London
Uses multimodal AI to moderate visual content at scale, reading what is in a video or image and the context around it to flag harmful material, combining AI agents with human review. Founded in 2019 by Sasha Haco and James Thewlis. Headquartered in London.
Early-stage London
Builds an AI training-data and annotation platform called Darwin, alongside V7 Go, a document-automation product for extracting and processing data. Headquartered in London.
Growth London
Builds self-driving software that learns to drive end-to-end from cameras, without the HD maps or lidar most rivals rely on. Headquartered in London and licensing its system to carmakers.
Seed Other England
Builds AI-enabled robotic systems with a patented electronic skin that lets them handle delicate fresh produce such as grapes and tomatoes. Headquartered in Sedgefield, County Durham.
Transport for London has granted private hire licences to 15 of Wayve's self-driving cars, clearing the way for supervised robotaxi rides in the capital with Uber. A trained safety driver stays on board for now, with the first trips due later this summer.
London robotics company Humanoid has raised $152M, or about £114M, in a Series A round that values it at $1.35B, making it Europe's first pure-play humanoid-robotics unicorn. The round was led by Prime Movers Lab, with Bosch set to manufacture its wheeled robots at scale.