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Professor Pietro Valdastri holding a multi-scale approach with a magnetic tentacle (milli-scale) coming out from a flexible endoscope (meso-scale).

Leeds secures £1.8m EPSRC award for international surgical robotics collaboration

The University of Leeds has secured major UKRI funding to lead a new international research project developing magnetic robotic technologies for minimally invasive surgery.

38 attendees of the 2025 IEEE Summit, standing in three rows and smiling at the camera

Leeds hosts IEEE Women in Engineering Summit to boost female representation in STEM

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

Fareda AlWakeel using pliers on a plastic wood and metal frame in a workshop

Engineering empathy: How Leeds has partnered with REMAP to transform disabled people’s lives

The University of Leeds has begun an exciting collaboration with REMAP, a UK charity that improves the quality of life for people who experience disability through infirmity, illness, or ageing.

Robot arms autonomously maintaining protective netting in an agricultural nursery.

Leeds experts call for UK robot manufacturing to shift from research to reality

The UK leads in robotics research, but why aren’t we making more robots? A new white paper from academics at the University of Leeds and industry partners explores this critical question.

Multiple dancers, wearing colourful, light-up costumes, dancing in front of a wavy statue outside at night, surrounded by a circle of viewers sat on stone walls.

Technicians help power the magic of Light Night 2025

A team of skilled technicians helped transform the University of Leeds campus into a spectacle of light, sound, and science for this year’s most ambitious Light Night Leeds contribution yet.

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