Skip to main content University of Leeds homepage

News

Filters

Clear all filters Show 87 search results

87 results for 'robotics'

Professor Chris Johnson delivering his speech at the University of Leeds.

Ensuring science delivers for future generations

Published
31 July 2026
Categories
Science | University

Providing balanced, future-focused policy advice is a key motivation for the Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser at the newly established Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Technology.

Patient Brenda Iveson sitting in a chair

Robotic treatment offers new hope for liver cancer patients

Published
9 June 2026
Categories
Science | Health | Research

A 92-year-old woman from North Yorkshire has become the first UK patient to receive a pioneering robotic-assisted treatment for a liver tumour which previously had no viable options.

A child in Brownie uniform builds a robot using cardboard boxes, brown tape and pink strands of wool

Robots inspire future engineers

Published
14 April 2026
Categories
Working with our region

A group of Brownies have been inspired to consider careers in engineering after visiting campus to discover robotics, 3D printing labs, and carnival costumes – and earn their Inventors badge.

The University of Leeds farm with crop fields and a farm shed and trees in the background.

Farming for the future

Published
3 February 2026
Categories
Environment | Working with business

Ambitious plans to reduce the environmental impacts of farming and increase food security have been revealed as part of a collaboration between the University of Leeds and McCain Foods.

A group of people in a lecture theatre smiling at the camera at the IEEE summit.

Inspiring women in engineering

Published
21 January 2026
Categories
University

Students have described how they were empowered and inspired to pursue careers in engineering at a Leeds summit.

Fareda stands with her arms folded in the middle of a workshop

Engineers tackle disability barriers

Published
12 November 2025
Categories
Alumni

A Leeds alum helped bring together the University and a UK charity to create bespoke solutions for disabled people.

Four students with a researcher and consultant, standing in front of surgical robotics equipment in a hospital.

Inspiration for Caribbean students

Published
28 August 2025
Categories
University news | Global

Students from the Caribbean have been inspired to pursue careers in research during a visit to Leeds to work with surgical robotics.

Four individuals pose at a black tie event

Fighting an inoperable brain tumour

Published
16 June 2025
Categories
Alumni

Since her brain cancer diagnosis in January 2023, Mel Crossland has raised awareness and funds for groundbreaking research and a transformative MRI scanner at Leeds.

Zoomed in view of mini robot with plastic nodule cut across showing microchip and protruding wires

Mini rolling robot takes virtual biopsies

Published
27 March 2025
Categories
News | Research

A tiny magnetic robot which can take 3D scans from deep within the body and could revolutionise early cancer detection, has been developed by researchers.