Come meet Analog Devices at the UK Robot Manipulation Conference

We’re excited to sponsor the UK Robot Manipulation Conference, taking place in Edinburgh, Scotland on January 6 and 7, 2026. This event brings together researchers, engineers, and industry leaders to advance the future of robotics—and we’re proud to be part of the conversation.

Why We’re Participating

The event is the premier annual gathering for the UK’s robotics community, bringing together hundreds of researchers, students, and industry leaders for two days of cutting-edge talks, tutorials, poster sessions, lab tours, and networking. The workshop showcases the latest advances in robot manipulation, tactile sensing, simulation, and AI, with contributions from top universities and leading tech companies.

At Analog Devices (ADI), we’re committed to pushing the boundaries of robotics and simulation. ADI provides end-to-end answers for robot designs. From sensors and actuators to connectivity, power management, and processing, we offer fully interoperable solutions that simplify integration and reduce time to market. With decades of domain expertise, ADI can help you with motor drives, servo control, sensing, and high-speed communications. Some examples include:

• ADI’s time-of-flight (ToF) solutions offer high-resolution depth perception for robotics, providing a 1 Megapixel depth imager with a wide 75°×75° field of view. Ready to use, the module offers a complete, calibrated package with an imager, lens, infrared laser illumination, driver, and optics, all pre-calibrated for accuracy across its full 0.4–4 m range.
• ADI’s MEMS IMUs help support your robot localization, balancing, posture, and motion tracking.
• To help you with fine-grained control of robot arms and grippers, ADI encoders offer precise joint angles that ensure accurate movements and simplify repeatable manipulation tasks.
• On the connectivity side, ADI’s wireless, GMSL and deterministic ethernet products offer flexible and reliable networking that withstands or replaces complex cabling situations.

ADI teams are actively developing solutions that help robots become more responsive, and capable of operating in complex environments. Our sponsorship reflects our dedication to advancing robotics research and reinforcing our strong connections within the community and industry. The workshop is also a great opportunity for our colleagues to learn new concepts and share ideas – key elements of ADI’s culture.

Meet our Researchers at the Workshop

ADI teams are actively working on robotic perception, manipulation algorithms, tactile sensing, robotic policies, and simulation frameworks. At the workshop you will have an opportunity to meet two of our researchers:

• Giorgio Manganini, Principal AI/ML Researcher with ADI robotics policy team, recently co-presented this paper about VLM usage in production settings at the 2025 ECAI conference and co-authored this post about his team’s research. He is currently working on combining imitation learning with diffusion-based generative models to train visuomotor policies directly from visual data, leveraging multiple 3D representations, skill orchestration, and robust sim-to-real transfer.
• Adam Seewald, a Senior Engineer, AI/ML Software with ADI’s simulation team, contributed to the creation of an ML surrogate model that enabled drastic acceleration of high-fidelity component modeling for robotic policies. His current research focuses on simulators for dexterous manipulation and robotic hands using tactile sensing.

You can also learn more about our latest publications and projects at analog.com/ai.

Join Our Team

We’re hiring! If you’re passionate about robotics and AI and look to be challenged and enriched with new knowledge daily, we’d love to meet you.

Featured roles:
Robotics AI/ ML Engineer: You will be focused on developing and integrating task policies using hierarchical planning, reinforcement learning, or hybrid methods. You will design and implement short and long-horizon planning systems for real-world robotic applications.

Principal AI/ML Robotics Simulation Engineer: Your work will span simulating and modeling sensors for platforms like Isaac Sim, develop mechanical simulation & FEA for robotics, Sim-to-Real alignment, physics-informed machine learning, and more.

We’ll be on hand to help you explore more open roles and even submit your resume in person. Be part of the team that shapes the next frontier in what robotic systems can do.

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Let’s Shape the Future of Robotics Together

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