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Kawada Robotics partners with University of Edinburgh to advance next-generation humanoids for industrial packaging

21 November, 2025

Kawada Robotics joins forces with the School of Informatics to develop next-generation humanoid…

New drug target identified in fight against resistant infections

14 November, 2025

The discovery of a new mechanism of resistance to common antibiotics could pave the way for…

Chip and software breakthrough makes AI ten times faster

12 November, 2025

A research team led by Dr Luo Mai from the School of Informatics, has developed WaferLLM, a…

Quantum Software Lab team reaches semi-finals of $5M global quantum competition

28 October, 2025

A team from the Quantum Software Lab (QSL) in the School of Informatics at the University of…

Lei Zhong awarded Google PhD Fellowship for research in human-motion generation

28 October, 2025

PhD student Lei Zhong has been named a recipient of a 2025 Google PhD Fellowship in Machine…

Quantum Lock: Informatics Researchers Develop Hybrid Quantum-Secure Communication Protocol

17 October, 2025

Researchers from the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh have developed a…

From Informatics to Antarctica: Katharina’s Journey of Science, Leadership and Collaboration

13 October, 2025

After completing her Computational Neuroscience PhD at the School of Informatics in 2017, Katharina…

DeepSpace: A breakthrough in Earth observation satellite image acquisition and storage

06 October, 2025

Researchers at the School of Informatics have developed DeepSpace, a new system that overcomes the…

Quantum Fringe 2025 | Celebrating the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology

04 October, 2025

This summer, Scotland played host to the Quantum Fringe Festival (QF25) - the UK’s largest series…

Professor Mirella Lapata awarded BCS Lovelace Medal

30 September, 20252025 Award Staff

Mirella Lapata, Professor of Natural Language Processing at the School of Informatics, has been…