What to Expect:

​Award Presentations: Celebrate the winners and finalists of the AI & Robotics Research Awards, recognising outstanding contributions in research, industry collaboration, leadership, and community impact.

​Keynote Address

​Networking Opportunities: Connect with like-minded professionals, industry leaders, and academics in a vibrant and supportive setting.

​Fine Dining Experience: Enjoy a delicious three-course meal in the prestigious Church House Conference Centre in London.

​Event Details:
Date: Wednesday 18 March 2026
Time: 16:00 – 21:15
Location: Church House Conference Centre, London
Dress code: Formal / Black tie optional

Event Programme
​16:00 – Registrations Open
17:00 – Welcome Remarks and Keynote Presentations
17:40 – Awards Presentations and Dinner
21:15 – Event Ends

The 2026 Awards Shortlist

Thank you to everyone who entered this year’s AI & Robotics Research Awards! We’re excited to unveiling the 2026 Awards Category Shortlist.

Community Award:
– Royal Academy of Engineering Team
– APRIL AI Hub

Best Research Paper:
– Efficient and Scalable Reinforcement Learning for Large-Scale Network Control – King’s College London
– Multi-label compound expression recognition: C-expr database & network – Queen Mary University of London
– CODI – Compressing Chain-of-Thought into Continuous Space via Self-Distillation – King’s College London

Best Research Project for Impact:
– Centre for Emerging Technology and Security – CETaS at The Alan Turing Institute
– Human Rights, Democracy, and the Rule of Law Impact Assessment for AI Systems (HUDERIA) – Queen Mary University of London
– The Pissarides Review into the Future of Work and Wellbeing – IFOW

Best Research Project (Research Excellence):
– Event-Centric Framework for Natural Language Understanding – King’s College London
– Conversational Robots to Support Well-being and Home Safety in Dementia Care – Imperial
– Improvement of Robotic-assisted Radical Prostatectomy (RARP) Functional and Oncological Outcomes via Automatically Segmented 3D Printed and VirtualProstate Models – King’s College London

Best Research Project (Industry Collaboration):
– Sustainable smArt Robotic Agriculture (SARA) – University of Essex
– MathOdyssey: Benchmarking Mathematical Problem-Solving Skills in Large Language Models Using Odyssey Math Data – University of Liverpool
– Project Bluebird – University of Exeter, NATS and The Alan Turing Institute

Leadership Award: This award will be announced at the Awards Ceremony on 18 March 2026

Our esteemed review panel
– Alessandra Russo, Professor in Applied Computational Logic, Imperial College London
– David Lane, Professor Emeritus, Heriot-Watt University
– Michael Wooldridge, Ashall Professor of the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, University of Oxford
– Henry Tse, Global Head of Products & Services, BAE Systems Digital Intelligence
– Andy Wright, Professor in Practice, University of Glasgow
– Bashar Nuseibeh (Panel Chair), Professor of Computing, The Open University

​Whether you are a finalist, an award supporter, or simply passionate about the advancements in AI & Robotics, this event is your opportunity to celebrate and be inspired.

​We look forward to seeing you there as we honour the remarkable achievements shaping the future of AI & Robotics.

​This event is hosted by Responsible Ai UK and is by invitation only. For more information, contact us at info@rai.ac.uk.