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Oxford Robotics Institute (ORI)

United Kingdom

Oxa raised 47 million dollars in a 2021 Series B and 140 million dollars in a 2023 Series C to deploy its GPS-independent autonomous driving software stack.

Updated 2026-07-10 · Last verified 2026-07-10

AffiliationUniversity of Oxford, Department of Engineering Science
CountryGB
TypeAcademic
Research areaslong-term autonomy, robot learning, autonomous driving, scene understanding
Flagship contributionProduced the Oxford RobotCar Dataset, a reference autonomous-driving dataset with over 100 repeated traversals of the same route over a year, spinning off the self-driving software company Oxa (formerly Oxbotica).
Key peopleNick Hawes (Director de l'ORI depuis 2022), Ingmar Posner (Founding Director, aujourd'hui Deputy Director, cofondateur d'Oxa), Paul Newman (Professor, head du Mobile Robotics Group, cofondateur d'Oxa)
Open outputsOxford RobotCar Dataset et Oxford Radar RobotCar Dataset, en accès ouvert sur robotcar-dataset.robots.ox.ac.uk.
CityOxford

Sources : Oxford Robotics Institute (2026-07)Oxford Robotics Institute (2026-07)International Journal of Robotics Research (2017-01)

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