AI Leader's Series: Robotics in the Age of Agentic AI

PLEASE NOTE: This event is has reached capacity for in-person places. We have now made tickets available to join online.

This event is part of techUK's AI Leader's Series, an event series equipping business leaders, policymakers, and technical professionals with timely, actionable insights on emerging AI trends. Each session translates complex developments into practical guidance, helping attendees make informed decisions about AI innovation, adoption and governance.

Agentic robotics is where two of the most significant developments in AI converge: the reasoning power of agentic AI and the physical capability of advanced robotics and industrial automation. The result is a new generation of machines that can plan and act autonomously in the real world. 

The difference matters. Autonomous robots react to sensor data and carry out pre-defined tasks. Agentic robots go further, interpreting a broad goal, break it into a multi-step plan and adapting as circumstances change. 

Co-delivered by techUK’s Robotics and AI Innovation programmes, this session explores what agentic robotics means for UK businesses and the wider economy: where adoption is already underway, the applications driving productivity gains, what is holding companies back, and how UK businesses can position themselves at the front of this shift. 

What will we cover? 

1. What agentic robotics is, and how it differs from autonomous robotics 

2. Where agentic AI and robotics are already converging across sectors including telecoms, defence, logistics and manufacturing 

3. How agentic robotics could reshape the UK workforce, redefining existing roles, rethinking human–machine collaboration, and changing the skills needed to deploy and oversee these systems in businesses of all sizes 

4. How the UK’s agentic robotics ecosystem fits together across regulation, funding, skills and frontier research and how companies can engage with it, shape its direction and draw on what’s available 

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