The undersigned are some of the experts that authored these principles for the EPSRC.

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The government research council that funds robotics, the EPSRC, published its Principles of Robotics in April 2011, which is easy to find with a web search.

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However, funding from the Home Office, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the University of Strathclyde has allowed researchers to turn their attention to the topic.

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The research was originally funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and is currently continuing under Technology Strategy Board funding, with Siemens as an industrial partner.

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Though this application had been filed before SPICE was proposed, and Mr Davidson both declared his interest and recused himself from discussions on SPICE team when advising EPSRC, Matt Watson of Bristol university, SPICE's principle investigator, was sufficiently concerned about both the application and wider issues of the sort considered by the stakeholder committee that, this week, he cancelled the balloon experiment.

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