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| Company type | Limited Company |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1956 |
| Headquarters | Romsey, United Kingdom |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Paul MacGregor, Managing Director Ian Cooper, Finance Director |
Number of employees | 828 (2022)[1] |
| Parent | Chemring Group PLC[2] |
| Website | roke |
Roke, legally Roke Manor Research Ltd, is a British company based at Roke Manor near Romsey, Hampshire, which conducts research and development in the fields of communications, networks, electronic sensors, artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, Military decision support consultancy and operational analysis, information assurance, and human science. In addition to supporting its parent Chemring, Roke undertakes contract research and development, and product development work for both public and private sector customers. Products developed from research at Roke Manor include the Hawk-Eye ball tracker,[3] which is now used widely in sports such as tennis, football, and cricket.
Roke has been part of the Chemring Group since 2010, having been founded as part of the Plessey company to operate as a dedicated research and development centre, with mass production elsewhere, and later owned for almost 20 years by Siemens where it had a similar research role.
- ^ "Chemring Group PLC Trading Update, 6 October 2022". Retrieved 15 October 2022.
- ^ "Roke Manor Research – Chemring Group PLC". www.chemring.co.uk. Chemring Group PLC. 2012. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
- ^ "About Hawk-Eye". Hawk-Eye Innovations Ltd. Archived from the original on 23 January 2013. Retrieved 8 May 2013.