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Cooper Group / MIF Liverpool
U Liverpool (MIF, opened 2017; CMD forerunner 2007)
Andy Cooper's mobile robot chemists roam the Materials Innovation Factory, autonomously running photocatalyst, porous-material, and CO₂-capture experiments; the £81M MIF opened in 2017, building on the robotic Centre for Materials Discovery running since 2007.
Location
Liverpool, UK
Domain
materials
Maturity
operational
Investment
£81M MIF (Unilever £25M + UKRPIF £11M)
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Maintained with the lab · Aug 2026