The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) has launched a new competition: Telexistence. £500K is available to fund multiple proposals.
We expect individual proposals to be less than £100K. Projects must be completed by 31 May 2021. There are three Challenge areas:
• Challenge 1: Telepresence
• Challenge 2: Haptics
• Challenge 3: Robotics
This Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) competition, run on behalf of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), aims to develop and demonstrate the components of a telexistence solution to the defence and security community. There is the potential for this competition (Phase 1) to be followed by a second competition (Phase 2) which will invite proposals to tailor their telexistence systems to meet a defence and security use case.
The Competition Document is here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/competition-telexistence/competition-document-telexistence
You can sign up to the launch event on the 14th of October here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/telexistence-launch-event-tickets-121523673579?aff=ebemoffollowpublishemail&utm_term=Telexistence++Launch+Event&utm_medium=email&utm_content=follow_notification&utm_source=eventbrite&utm_campaign=following_published_event
You can book one-to-ones for the 21st and 22nd of October here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/defence-and-security-accelerator-12742378614
