Our Innovations, Projects and Awards.

IRIS conducts world-leading R&D with practical impact, delivering innovative industrial AI solutions that help businesses and organisations achieve their goals. Through innovation-led development, collaborative R&D projects and award-recognised work, we continue to expand the horizons of AI for industrial automation, inspection, measurement, production intelligence and connected expert support.

INNOVATION

Built for Intelligent
Automation.

IRIS 360

Turn Your Operations Into Measurable Intelligence

Camera-based monitoring that converts production activity into live events, KPIs, alerts, reports and improvement priorities.

CONNECTED XR

Remote expertise at the point of work.

Augmented reality, live guidance and evidence capture for industrial quality, maintenance and expert support workflows.

LLM ORCHESTRATION

Coordinated AI agents for operational tasks.

Orchestrated language-model workflows for industrial use cases, support processes and automation.

SECURE DATA

Privacy-aware AI and anonymisation.

Data protection and anonymisation approaches that help industrial AI work with sensitive information more responsibly.

DATA ANONYMISATION PATENT
GB2596037B

IRIS innovation: supporting AI progress while protecting sensitive operational data.

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SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES
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PROJECTS
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FUNDING ORGANISATIONS
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Digital Transformation for
Intelligent Workflows.

COURSES DELIVERED

Teaching applied AI, data and automation skills.

We deliver courses that connect AI, data science, machine vision and industrial automation with practical industry use cases.

HIGH-IMPACT RESEARCH

Research translated into industrial capability.

Our digital transformation work connects high-impact research with deployable systems for manufacturing, inspection and intelligent operations.

INDUSTRIAL UPSKILLING

Applied AI Systems Workforce & Professional Practice Accelerator.

Through Innovate UK Project No: 10194914 with Nottingham Trent University, IRIS supports development of a data science course shaped around industrial impact.

Award-Winning Innovations.

SmartVision AR

Augmented reality and AI for manufacturing quality control.

Combining visual AI and connected guidance to support quality decisions and operator workflows.

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  • Links inspection intelligence with AR guidance for frontline teams.
  • Supports faster quality decisions and clearer operator context.
  • Connects directly with IRIS expertise in visual AI and connected support.
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Scion

Secured and intelligent machine-to-machine communications for 6G.

Horizon Europe MSCA Doctoral Network research supporting secure 6G connectivity, digital twins and AI-enabled industrial automation.

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  • Develops secure and intelligent M2M communication foundations for future industrial systems.
  • IRIS contributes digital twin capability for industrial automation and inspection.
  • Connects AI vision, fault detection, precision measurement and system integration.
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Orion

Orchestrated reinforcement-learning intelligent LLM agents.

Exploring coordinated AI agents and language-model orchestration for practical organisational and industrial workflows.

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  • Develops secure multi-agent LLM systems for enterprise and industrial decision support.
  • Combines orchestration, RAG, governance and human validation for trusted AI workflows.
  • Designed for sovereign deployment where traceability, auditability and data control matter.

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UK Sovereign AI

UK-leading innovation for industrial AI.

Supported by the UK Government's Sovereign AI initiative, IRIS is helping develop next-generation AI technologies for manufacturing and automotive industries.

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  • Supports sovereign, trusted and industry-ready AI capability in the UK.
  • Targets manufacturing and automotive use cases with practical deployment potential.
  • Builds on IRIS work in inspection, secure data and intelligent industrial systems.
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