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Join our University of Plymouth teams outside Market Hall at “LifeIn AI 2026” for live demonstrations of autonomous robotics platforms and see cutting-edge technology in action. Meet the team, explore real-world applications and discover how robotic systems are transforming agriculture, environmental monitoring and autonomous operations.
11:00 - 12:00 & 15:00 - 16:00pm — (Immersive Dome)
University of Plymouth & Soundview Media: “Making the Invisible, Visible”
Combining underwater cinematography and real-time 3D visualisation, this immersive dome film brings Smart Sound and Sub Sea Connect to life, taking audiences beneath the surface of Plymouth Sound to explore the UK’s pioneering subsea testbed for marine autonomy and AI-enabled ocean technologies.
14:30-15:00: Team Plymouth workshop (Workshop Room)
“AI For Everyone Workshop”. Curious about AI but not sure where to start? Join this interactive session that shows how AI can support life, learning and work.
Led by the University of Plymouth’s Delivery Manager Vicki Kennedy alongside Babcock AI expert Liam Palette
14:45- 15:15 University of Plymouth Talk (Keynote area)
“AI and Robotics for Health and Wellbeing: From Understanding Data to Intelligent Assistance”
By University of Plymouth AI and Robotics lecturer, Dr Amir Aly.
This session with Dr Amir Aly — a researcher and academic in the fields of AI and robotics — explores how intelligent technologies are moving from analysing information to playing a more active role in people’s lives. He will examine the opportunities AI and robotics are creating for health and wellbeing, alongside the challenges and limitations that come with their use. Bringing these themes together, the talk will follow the journey from using AI to make sense of complex information to developing systems that can interact, adapt and provide assistance in real-world settings, while considering how these advances can be used effectively and responsibly.
16:00 - 17:00: Interactive Workshop (Workshop Room)
“The Unfiltered AI Conversation”
By University of Plymouth’s Rupert Lorraine and Ben Siu. These two practitioners share how they’re using AI across work, business and everyday life.
The University of Plymouth’s Rupert Lorraine, Sector Lead (Creative Economy), and Ben Siu, Associate Professor in Marketing at Plymouth Business School, held a highly popular workshop at “LifeIn AI 2025”. They are back this year, comparing notes on how AI is changing what they can do. They’ll share real examples of things they’ve built and automated, show how they got there, discuss some of the AI stories making the news and invite the room into the conversation. The session includes an opening sense-check on how people in the room are already using AI, followed by a clear, jargon-free overview of what today’s AI tools are good at, where they are less reliable and why judgement, context and human responsibility still matter. Rupert and Ben will also take a rapid, conversational look at AI news, claims and anxieties – separating useful developments from hype, challenging a few common misconceptions and exploring the questions that deserve more attention – before moving into a practical show-and-tell featuring real examples of things they’ve built, automated or approached differently with AI.
12:00 - 12:20: Live streamed Podcast, listen and watch on The Devon Chamber of Commerce LinkedIn or Facebook Page.
“Can AI Really Understand Us? What Machines Get Right, Wrong and Still Miss”
By University of Plymouth AI and Robotics lecturer, Dr Amir Aly. Does AI really understand humans or does it only appear to — and what does that mean for how much we should trust it?
Learn more about our Live Demo’s
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Meet our agile robot dogs, Ellie and Elliot, and see autonomous robotics at work in the real world. Equipped with advanced sensors, cameras and artificial intelligence, these versatile platforms can navigate challenging terrain while collecting valuable environmental data. Discover how robotic systems are supporting innovation in agriculture, infrastructure monitoring, environmental management and beyond.
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Experience the future of autonomous vehicles with the Robotic Traction Unit. Designed as a flexible, low-cost platform for agriculture and field operations, it can carry tools, sensors and specialist equipment while navigating independently. Learn how autonomous technologies are helping to improve efficiency, productivity and sustainability across a range of industries.
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Step inside the Agri Van, a mobile hub for robotics, artificial intelligence and digital innovation. Featuring live demonstrations, interactive displays and real-time data visualisation, the vehicle showcases how cutting-edge technologies are being deployed beyond the laboratory to solve real-world challenges in agriculture, environmental monitoring and rural industries.
Also visit the University of Plymouth stand in the Education Zone to meet our researchers, students and technical specialists, and discover how our world-leading robotics and engineering expertise is shaping the future through innovation, creativity and real-world problem solving.
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Discover the Plymouth OWL, a unique vision-enabled robotics platform developed at the University of Plymouth. Using advanced stereo vision and artificial intelligence, the system demonstrates how robots can perceive and interpret the world around them. Experience cutting-edge research in autonomous systems, machine vision and intelligent decision-making in action.
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Explore how robotics is transforming healthcare through this hands-on interactive demonstration. Showcasing technologies that support rehabilitation, assisted living and patient care, visitors can see how intelligent robotic systems are helping to improve quality of life, enhance clinical outcomes and shape the future of healthcare innovation.
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Meet our humanoid robot and experience the future of human-robot interaction. Combining speech, movement and intelligent responses, this engaging demonstration highlights advances in artificial intelligence and social robotics. Discover how human-centred technologies could support education, healthcare, customer service and workplaces of the future.
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Take control of a modern industrial robot arm and see automation in action. This interactive exhibit demonstrates the precision, speed and reliability that make robotics essential across manufacturing and engineering environments. Learn how programmable robotic systems are driving innovation, productivity and efficiency across a wide range of sectors.
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Where technology meets creativity. This exciting demonstration showcases how robotics and artificial intelligence can create, perform and respond to music in real time. Experience the fusion of engineering, computing and the creative arts as intelligent systems collaborate in innovative and unexpected ways to produce engaging musical experiences.
About University of Plymouth
The University of Plymouth is an ambitious modern university and award-winning university, recently named Community University of the Year 2027 in the Daily Mail University Guide. They pride themselves on providing outstanding opportunities and experiences for their students and staff, with all of their activities designed to deliver positive impacts for communities, people and the planet.
Awarded triple gold in the Teaching Excellence Framework, the University is home to around 18,000 students from over 130 countries, while thousands more are pursuing degrees at partner colleges worldwide. When they graduate, they join a global community of around 200,000 alumni, many of whom stay in Plymouth and take advantage of the ever-expanding opportunities available in the city.
Through their world-leading research and industry partnerships, they are fostering innovations in artificial intelligence that can drive advances in engineering, marine science, autonomous systems, cyber security, health technologies, business and more.