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Sam Hilton-Jones takes his large language model research to ICML 2026 in Seoul

Thursday, 15 October, 2026

MINDS postgraduate researcher Sam Hilton-Jones presented his first conference poster at ICML 2026 in Seoul, and came home with ideas that are shaping his PhD.
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Navigating magnetic robots for assisted robotic surgery

Wednesday, 14 October, 2026

MINDS postgraduate researcher Jack Hilton-Jones presented his work on magnetic continuum robots for surgery at the 2026 Showcase, and found the alumni speakers invaluable.
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Yaseen Osman on teaching children how language models work, and giving a river a voice

Wednesday, 14 October, 2026

MINDS researcher Yaseen Osman taught local children how large language models work, then helped the River Itchen answer questions at the British Science Festival.
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Mixing music with a wave of the hand: the gesture recognition behind DJ Air

Wednesday, 14 October, 2026

DJ Air lets anyone mix music with hand gestures and a laptop camera. MINDS researchers Keniel Peart, Rudra Mutalik and Epifanios Baikas helped build it.
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Xander Lowe’s neural connections game shows Festival visitors the scale of the brain

Wednesday, 14 October, 2026

At the British Science Festival, MINDS CDT researcher Xander Lowe used a hands-on neural connections game to show visitors how the brain builds concepts.
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Talking robots show Festival visitors what conversational AI can and can’t do

Wednesday, 14 October, 2026

At the British Science Festival, Tommy Tham and Yaseen Osman used two conversational robots to show visitors what AI can do, and where it still falls short.
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Robots, rivers and neurons: our AI researchers meet the public at the British Science Festival

Wednesday, 14 October, 2026

MINDS CDT postgraduate researchers took four hands-on AI demonstrations to the British Science Festival in Southampton and met around 450 visitors in a day.
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From desktop AI to magnetic surgical robots: MINDS researchers at the 2026 Showcase

Monday, 21 September, 2026

MINDS postgraduate researchers shared their work with industry, policy and academic guests at the 2026 MINDS and SustAI Showcase. Watch the highlight film.
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MINDS researchers present at NEXT-AI 2026

Friday, 1 May, 2026

Two MINDS doctoral researchers travelled to Loughborough in April 2026 to present their work at NEXT-AI, a national workshop on neuromorphic technologies and hardware-enabled AI. The event brought together more than 120 participants, 40 speakers and 10 exhibitors from across the research and industry community working in this space. Aiden Graham presented a poster examining…
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MINDS and SustAI researchers gather for third annual symposium

Thursday, 12 February, 2026

On 24 January 2025, MINDS CDT researchers gathered at the Leonardo Southampton Hotel for the programme’s third annual symposium. Around 40 people attended, making it the largest symposium the CDT has held. This year’s event had a new dimension. For the first time, the symposium welcomed the first cohort of SustAI, the UKRI Centre for…
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