Dr Seemal Asif is Co-Investigator on a EUR 1.3 million EPSRC-funded project (EP/V051180/1, ‘Reconfigurable robotics for responsive manufacture - R3M’), where she is responsible for the architecture of the framework and automation of risk assessment. She is part of the strategic investigator team for a EUR 4.8 million EPSRC-funded Made Smarter Innovation Project (EP/V062158/1), where she is helping to integrate the human factor (psychological impacts) within industrial human robot collaboration. She is currently co-managing these projects from the Cranfield Univ. (CU) side and looks after the research deliverables, providing research direction to Research Assistants, horizontally collaborating with research partners and developing the architecture for systems. The projects require collaboration and communication between academic and industry partners including Airbus, Rolls Royce, Spirit Aero and GKN. She is a valued development team member, CU control lead and Co-Investigator for the ATI-funded Airbus project for Module-Positioning (AutoRamp; TRL:5-7). She has 12 years of experience in academia and 4 years of experience in the industry of Software house (associated with academia). She is an enthusiastic scientist, CENG and HEA-Fellow who looks for opportunities to solve problems that make life easier by working closely with the industry to provide automated systems which not only include expert–humans in the loop but also assist operators with manual handling and precision.