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01 Jun-01 Jun 2023

Ideas Studio

  • 11 and over
  • Computer Science
  • Health

Using Virtual Reality to Understand Disease

See how cutting-edge software, using virtual reality, allows you to enlarge, rotate and “enter” tiny structures like protein molecules! Then discover how changes to DNA affect protein molecules and cause disease.
  • 13 and over
  • Computer Science
  • Engineering
  • Industry

Meet a Robotics Engineer: SP Automation and Robotics

Join Chanelle, an applications engineer from SP Automation and Robotics, to see how robots are helping to create safer and more productive work places through automation.
  • 13 and over
  • Computer Science
  • Engineering
  • Industry

Collaborating with Robots: SP Automation and Robotics

What’s a cobot you ask? Join Braden, a cobot applications engineer from SP Automation and Robotics, to learn about collaborative robots and see what a career in robotics is really like.
  • 11 and over
  • Climate Change
  • Computer Science
  • Data/Maths
  • Our Planet

Swimming, Not Drowning, in a Deep Pool of Data about Water

How can we use the huge amounts of data we collect, to learn about our ‘blue planet’ and the freshwater resources that support all life on Earth?
  • 11 and over
  • Computer Science
  • Health

Can Artificial Intelligence Detect Cancer?

Learn how experts have created an artificial intelligence system that can automatically find and measure cancer on patients’ scans, without any human input.
  • 11 and over
  • Computer Science
  • Health

Lasers, Microscopes and Virtual Reality

Imagine standing inside a human cell. Not a cell drawn by an artist but a real cell that was scanned by lasers and then sent to a VR headset!
  • 11 and over
  • Climate Change
  • Computer Science
  • Engineering
  • Our Planet
  • Transport

The Future of Transport: Driving Change in the Next 10 years

How is transport being revolutionised with technology to tackle pollution and banish congestion? From artificial intelligence to super-speed trains, what will the transport of our future really look like?
  • 13 and over
  • Computer Science
  • Engineering

The Innovation Podcast: Robotics and AI

Join James from the Innovate UK podcast as they explore the way robots could revolutionise our work, with help from industry experts already using this technology.
  • 13 and over
  • Computer Science
  • Space

Robotics and Space Debris

Find out how Astroscale plan to use robots to clear up space debris and help create a sustainable environment in space.
  • 13 and over
  • Computer Science
  • Engineering

Innovate UK Predictions: The Future of Robotics

In the future, robots with artificial intelligence will help make life easier for us. How will they transform our industries and working lives, or help us tackle climate change?
  • 8 and over
  • Computer Science
  • Our Planet

Dynamic Earth – Satellites and Snow Leopards

What is artificial intelligence and how do machines learn? Find out how researchers are using these innovative technologies to learn about snow leopards and protect them in the wild.
  • 8 and over
  • Computer Science
  • Health

Odd One Out

Can you spot the odd one out? Find out how artificial intelligence can help doctors by trying this activity from our Idea No59 Exhibition.
A screenshot of James presenting a video on how to make your own cipher
  • 8 and over
  • Computer Science

Make Your Own Codebreaker – Caesar Cipher

Find out how to send and receive your very own secret messages. James is here to talk you through making a Caesar Cipher that only you and your allies can decipher.
  • 8 and over
  • Computer Science

Build a Computer

Computers are an integral part of our day-to-day lives - almost everything we own has a computer inside it! James explains the different parts of a computer, and what they do, whilst building his very own LEGO computer!
  • 8 and over
  • Computer Science

Breakfast Bot

How do computers know what we want them to do? Coding! Find out how Alicia gets on as she tries to program a robot to make toast with jam and butter.
  • 13 and over
  • Computer Science
  • Data/Maths

Track The Ball

Can you keep your eye on the ball? Try some innovator training from our Idea No59 Exhibition to improve your critical thinking skills.