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From the climate crisis to personalised medicine, we are applying AI to the world’s major challenges, exploring its ethical dimensions and collaborating with industry to ensure that our research has the greatest impact.

Minister for AI and Digital Government visits Cambridge to tour the DAWN supercomputer

13 January 2025

̽»¨Ö±²¥Minister for AI and Digital Government, Feryal Clark MP, visited the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge on the day the Government announced their new AI Action Plan.  

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Hurricane

Using AI to avert ‘environmental catastrophe’

21 Feb 2019

A new Centre at the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge will develop artificial intelligence techniques to help address some of the biggest threats facing the...

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Machine learning algorithm helps in the search for new drugs

11 Feb 2019

Researchers have designed a machine learning algorithm for drug discovery which has been shown to be twice as efficient as the industry standard...

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Puppy, a running robot developed by Fumiya Iida’s team

Robots can go all the way to Mars, but they can’t pick up the groceries

21 Dec 2018

In the popular imagination, robots have been portrayed alternatively as friendly companions or existential threat. But while robots are becoming...

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From Homer to HAL: 3000 years of AI narratives

12 Dec 2018

We have been writing about artificial intelligence for almost as long as stories have been written. Now, researchers want us to consider why the...

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Skin cancer cells from a mouse show how cells attach at contact points

AI system may accelerate search for cancer discoveries

27 Nov 2018

Searching through the mountains of published cancer research could be made easier for scientists, thanks to a new AI system.

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Artificial intelligence

Multi-million pound initiative from Microsoft to support AI research at Cambridge

31 Oct 2018

̽»¨Ö±²¥ ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge is joining with Microsoft to help tackle the problem of ‘brain drain’ in AI and machine learning research.

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Heartsense monitor

Low-cost AI heart monitor developed by Cambridge start-up

11 Sep 2018

A Cambridge start-up has developed a low-cost next-generation wearable heart and cardiovascular function monitor which uses AI to diagnose heart...

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Code

Cambridge to appoint DeepMind Chair of Machine Learning

24 Jul 2018

̽»¨Ö±²¥ ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge will establish a DeepMind Chair of Machine Learning, thanks to a benefaction from the world-leading British AI company.

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Mutants in Microgravity

Making sense of cancer’s ‘big data’ problem to revolutionise patient care

10 Jul 2018

A new institute at the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge aims to revolutionise cancer care by using cutting edge analytics to maximize the use of big data sets...

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Humans need not apply

05 Jul 2018

Will automation, AI and robotics mean a jobless future, or will their productivity free us to innovate and explore? Is the impact of new technologies...

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Computer code. Image by Markus Spiske

Cambridge and Nokia Bell Labs establish new research centre to advance AI-supported multi-sensory personal devices

20 Jun 2018

̽»¨Ö±²¥long-sought dream of wearable and mobile devices that will interpret, replicate and influence people’s emotions and perceptions will soon be a...

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Live demonstration of Social Robotics in Wellcome Collections' Friday Late Spectacular - Body Language Event, 4 Nov. 2016 (19:00-23:00), Euston, London, UK

Evolving with the robots

25 May 2018

Demystifying how social and human-like robots work is vital so that we can understand and shape how they will affect our future, Dr Hatice Gunes will...

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