EPSRC National Facility for Innovative Robotic Systems robotics.leeds.ac.uk/facility/

The EPSRC National Facility for Innovative Robotic Systems is an advanced manufacturing facility for the fabrication of small to medium sized robots. The Facility is housed in the School of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Leeds, but operates under a small research facility model that makes it easy for anyone to access the equipment. You can also specifically include the Facility in costings for EPSRC grants.
The main items of equipment fall under the categories of Additive Manufacturing and Subtractive Manufacturing. Our additive manufacturing systems include a very large multi-material printer (Objet1000) with a build platform of almost 1m2 capable of printing with hard and soft polymers simultaneously; a small, ultra-high precision printer (Perfactory P3 Mini) with a resolution of 16um that supports a range of polymeric materials; and a laser sintering system (Realizer SLM-50) capable of printing in metals including steel and cobalt-chrome. Our subtractive manufacturing systems include a high-precision 5-axis CNC milling machine (DMU 40 eVo); a high-precision CNC lathe (Citizen L12) capable of turning shafts down to sub-mm diameters; and an unusual water jet-guided laser cutter (Synova MCS300) that can cut most hard materials with extremely high precision.