Joint projects will integrate robotic platforms with AI agents for safer and more efficient operations.

NextGen Ri and Implement AI have entered into a strategic partnership to develop real-world applications where robots and AI agents work side by side.

The collaboration will see advanced robotic platforms from NextGen Ri integrated with Implement AI’s integration platform, creating systems that can collect and analyse data, coordinate multiple robots, and escalate decisions to humans when needed.

The partnership goes beyond hardware or software alone. Instead, it focuses on joint demonstrators and pilot projects that show how embodied AI can deliver safer, more efficient, and more scalable operations across sectors such as logistics, inspection, security, and public safety.

Robots are increasingly taking on repetitive, dangerous, or physically demanding tasks, enabling humans to focus on creativity, judgement, and emotional intelligence. This collaboration looks to accelerate a future where people manage systems, design workflows, and apply human strengths alongside robotic efficiency.

On their own, both companies bring proven capabilities. NextGen Ri develops advanced quadrupeds, humanoids and sensor platforms trusted in demanding and high-risk environments, while Implement AI provides a management layer of digital workers and AI agents that coordinate processes, manage data, and integrate human decision-making.

The challenge has been that robotics without an intelligence layer can struggle to scale, while AI agents without physical platforms remain theoretical. By combining strengths, NextGen Ri and Implement AI can deliver systems that operate safely, make sense of complex data in real time, and escalate decisions to people where required.

This joint approach unlocks opportunities in industries such as logistics, inspection, security and public safety, where coordinated robotic operations and AI-driven management can increase efficiency, reduce errors, and keep people out of harm’s way.

Recent studies show that even modest robot adoption can reduce work-related injuries by up to 16 % in industrial environments, providing not just safety benefits but financial advantages through lowered downtime and compensation costs.

At the same time, growing global deployment of robots, and particularly collaborative robots underlines the momentum behind human-robot teaming. Our joint pilots will build on this momentum, bringing these proven benefits into real-world practice.

Piers Linney, co-founder of Implement AI and recognised entrepreneur, first connected with NextGen Ri after seeing its work on social media. The conversation quickly revealed a natural alignment, with both organisations focused on making advanced technology practical, accessible, and directly valuable to businesses.

James Brown, Managing Director of NextGen Ri, said:

“This partnership is about unlocking capability. Our robots are powerful tools, but when combined with Implement AI’s platform they become part of a complete system that can deliver real outcomes. We are excited to show what is possible when hardware and intelligence are developed together.”

Piers Linney, Executive Chairman & Co-founder of Implement AI, said:

“The combination of digital workers and robotics is about to transform business and operations. Implement AI is working with NextGen Ri to develop real-world solutions combining robotics in the physical world working in teams with digital agents to manage them, provide escalation paths and to collect and analyse the data from as sensors.”

The partnership positions both companies as leaders in the UK’s robotics and AI landscape, bridging the physical and digital worlds with solutions designed for real-world impact.