{"id":399,"date":"2025-07-04T11:55:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T10:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/?p=399"},"modified":"2025-10-22T13:01:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T12:01:49","slug":"uk-ras-steps-technical-showcase-at-the-science-museum-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/2025\/07\/04\/uk-ras-steps-technical-showcase-at-the-science-museum-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"UK RAS STEPS Technical Showcase at the Science Museum in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukras-steps.org\/technical-showcase\/\">UK RAS STEPS Technical Showcase <\/a>took place on Wednesday 18th June at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemuseum.org.uk\/home\">Science Museum<\/a> in London.<\/p>\n<p>Launched in 2024, UK RAS STEPS is a community driven research technology platform to support Research Technical Professionals working in robotics and autonomous systems (RAS) across the UK. UK RAS STEPS is one of the EPSRC funded Strategic Technical Platforms who aim to cultivate a collaborative and inclusive research environment for technicians by fostering ongoing professional development, raising the profile of RAS Research Technician careers, and promoting responsible innovation practices across the UK, and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>There were more than 130 technical professionals in attendance. Attendees included technical professionals from Kent (Will Rose and Omar Dawaba from the School of Engineering) and the Eastern ARC EPSRC funded Strategic Technical Platform T-PIKE (Technical Platform for Innovation and Knowledge Exchange) Operations Team. Kent&#8217;s Technical Manager (Technician Commitment) and Co-I on the T-PIKE Programme, Joanna Scamp, was also in attendance. Jo supported the event by being a part of the awards panel prior to the event and was on the career pathway discussion panel and was the co-host of the Technical Excellence Awards on the day.<\/p>\n<p>The day included exhibitors showcasing cutting edge technology and robotics, engaging talks from professionals across the UK, insightful discussions on various topics aimed at &#8216;Cultivating the Future&#8217; that UK RAS STEPS could support with, keynote speech by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speakersassociates.com\/speaker\/richard-noble\/\">Richard Noble<\/a> (Entrepreneur, Record Breaker, Motivational Speaker), panel discussion on &#8216;Exploring New Visions for Technical Career Pathways&#8217; and Technical Excellence Awards. The event was an insightful and collaborative event that offered opportunities to network throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to the UK RAS STEPS team for a truly inspiring event.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_405\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-405\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-405\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/files\/2025\/07\/Talks1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-405\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Fowler (Senior Technical Officer, centre for Robotics and Assembly, Cranfield University) giving a talk about a project that he worked on<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_403\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-403\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-403\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/files\/2025\/07\/Exhibitors2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-403\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exhibitors at the event showcasing a robot dog<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_404\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-404\" style=\"width: 1071px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-404\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/files\/2025\/07\/Panel-discussion.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1071\" height=\"801\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-404\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Briony Thomas hosting the panel career pathways discussion panel with (from left to right) Mel Leitch, Sara Bacon, Sarah Bennett and Jo Scamp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_402\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-402\" style=\"width: 1080px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-402\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/files\/2025\/07\/Awards.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"808\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-402\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jo Scamp (Kent) and Jonathan Walker (Innovate UK) presenting the Technical Excellence Awards<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_407\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-407\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-407\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/files\/2025\/07\/WillRose-and-OmarDawaba.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-407\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Will Rose and Omar Dawaba from Kent&#8217;s School of Engineering (Mechanical Engineering) technical services team<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_406\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-406\" style=\"width: 1074px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-406\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/files\/2025\/07\/T-PIKE-Group.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1074\" height=\"803\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-406\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">T-PIKE Team with (left to right) Helen Rowe, Kirsty Herrington, Beth Dawson, Phil Wilson, Jo Scamp and Liz Davis-Smith<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK RAS STEPS Technical Showcase took place on Wednesday 18th June at the Science Museum in London. Launched in 2024, UK RAS STEPS is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/2025\/07\/04\/uk-ras-steps-technical-showcase-at-the-science-museum-in-london\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78409,"featured_media":400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[212657,241885,241887],"tags":[241887],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/technicians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}