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Dr Viktor Doychinov from Robotics at Leeds has been working with Leeds Museums & Galleries to help teach coding skills to 7-14 years olds and their families. Read the full story...

Smart ‘Joey’ bots could soon swarm underground to clean and inspect our pipes

Engineers and scientists have paved the way for a robot that can reach some of the smallest bronchial tubes in the lungs – to take tissue samples or deliver cancer therapy.

Dr. Zhenhong Li, research fellow from the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering is leading FREEpHRI, a project that aims to improve human-robot interaction. Read more... Image: Adobe Stock

Read about the work of Robotics at Leeds Professor Pietro Valdastri in developing new means of detecting bowel cancer. Full article...

Read about the latest publication from Leeds roboticists in Nature Machine Intelligence on how colonoscopies can be made easier for patients and clinicians.

A team from Robotics at Leeds recently took part in a range of trials to assess the effectiveness of using robots to disinfect public spaces to help prevent the further spread of Covid-19. You can read more in the BBC News article and see video of the trials on Facebook.

A new video released on YouTube follows the story of Leeds researchers and their part in using a specially designed robot to film previously unexplored sections of an Egyptian pyramid. As well as the documentary, the research team have also released the full nine hours of raw footage of the exploration. Read more.  

Chris Skidmore, Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation, visited Nexus and reviewed some of the exciting research being undertaken by academics at University of Leeds, including the Robotics at Leeds team. Read more here.