AI and Robotics Redefining Our World

This talk explores how robotics and AI can address environmental and animal welfare challenges in forestry, agriculture and animal care. Inspired by personal experiences with wildfires in Portugal, I will discuss innovative robotic systems for wildfire prevention. The RAISE initiative extends these approaches to sustainable agriculture, peatland management and animal welfare – optimising resources, reducing waste and protecting ecosystems. Learn how these technologies align with UN Sustainable Development Goals and the importance of multidisciplinary cooperation for environmental preservation.

In geometry – the study of shapes in space – mathematical discovery crucially depends on experimentation, computation, and pattern recognition. On the other hand, machine learning, a branch of artificial intelligence, excels at recognising patterns, extracting information, and identifying relationships within datasets.
In this talk, we will explore how geometers are harnessing AI to generate insightful new examples, identify patterns across geometric shapes, and develop fresh intuition, opening new approaches to long-standing open problems.

In 2022, an AI-generated image was created in seconds and won first place in an art competition. The internet is flooded with AI-generated content making it increasingly difficult to just figure out what is and is not real. We cannot even perform a simple Google search without AI answering our questions before a human can. But what exactly are these algorithms, how do they work? In this talk, we’ll explore the concept of Generative AI without the marketing buzzwords and technical jargon with accessible explanations of this concept that is shaping our digital lives and rapidly making history.