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The East Midlands Service Robotics Competition 2026 will bring together robotics researchers, students, hospitality educators, local businesses and industry partners. Hosted at SHU, the event features a restaurant-style robot challenge, poster showcase, industry demo and panel discussion on the future of service robotics in hospitality.

Students from Software Engineering and Computer Science have showcased their project work to a national townhall event hosted by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), highlighting an ongoing collaboration between academia and industry.

The Horizon Europe project AIM-SAFE has secured €16.6 million to develop trustworthy generative AI for clinical decision support. The project brings together partners across Europe and beyond, including a team of researchers led by Dr. Abdel-Karim Al-Tamimi, research theme lead at CEAIR, to advance safer, explainable, and privacy-preserving healthcare AI.

On the 9th of March, in honour of International Women's Day, we held for the first time an event celebrating female and non-binary current students, alumni students and staff in the School of Computing and Digital Technologies.

A memorable gathering of female and non-binary computing students from across the UK. Amidst the scholarly exchange of 200+ posters, the atmosphere remained informative and inclusive. Highlights included inspiring talks and break-out sessions, seagulls occasionally joining us for lunch, and a joyful evening social featuring a 200-mini duck treasure hunt.

Second-year Computer Science and Software Engineering students are pushing the boundaries of immersive technology within the Institute of Technology’s AR/VR suite, better known as the ‘Igloo’.

The National Cybersecurity & Forensics Alliance (NCFA) is a student-led network founded at Sheffield Hallam University, connecting cybersecurity students through collaboration, mentorship, and events. Rapidly expanding to over 20 universities, it promotes practical learning and international engagement, while fostering inclusivity through its “conditional sociability” approach to increase student participation and opportunity.

CEAIR builds on the School’s strengths in embodied AI, collaborative robotics and responsible innovation to advance responsible AI and robotics research, support industry innovation and economic growth, and develop skills for an AI-enabled economy through collaboration and education in neuromorphic robotics, generative AI, health and wellbeing, and trustworthy autonomous systems.

Software developers from SYMCA, Local Authorities across South Yorkshire and South Yorkshire Police gathered together for the first South Yorkshire Digital Alliance hackathon.

On January 20, 2026, the Center of Excellence for AI and Robotics hosted the first Hallam Winter Seminar on Intelligence in Yorkshire. Focused on active inference and AI alignment, the event featured international speakers and concluded with a panel discussion promoting interdisciplinary collaboration on pressing alignment challenges.