Frontier IP now owns 27.5% of Plymouth's Fieldwork Robotics and has agreed to lend extra development and engineering expertise to the soft robotic arm manufacturer.

Zapata, which remains in stealth mode, filed a security filing naming two of its directors as partners from MIT's the Engine and VC firm Pillar.

The $21.9m in funding will enable Red Balloon Security, based on research at Columbia University, to increase its business operations.

Newcastle and Durham universities have been joined by regional peers Northumbria and Sunderland in a commercialisation drive backed by government funding.

University of Amsterdam-founded Kepler Vision has secured capital from investors including UvA Ventures to commercialise body language recognition products.

Parkwalk has invested from two vehicles under its management after previously backing the Cambridge spinout in late 2016.

OSU spinout Agility Robotics has raised $8m for robotic legs that are set to enhance the usefulness of robots for military or courier purposes.

Mythic, an AI chip developer that emerged out of UM, has closed a $40m round led by SoftBank Ventures that included another corporate venturing unit, Lockheed Martin Ventures.