Artificial Intelligence

The University of Edinburgh has been at the forefront of AI research for more than sixty years. The Bayes Centres builds on this expertise creating industry collaborations and offering dedicated support programmes.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) aims to create intelligent machines by programming human-like traits such as perception, reasoning, problem-solving, learning and planning. Our expertise at the Bayes Centre builds on a long tradition of AI research at the University of Edinburgh dating back to the early 1960s. Today our university is one of Europe’s largest centres for AI research, where several hundreds of researchers conduct ground-breaking research in fundamental and applied AI.

At the Bayes Centre, we focus particularly on creating collaboration between industry and academia in areas where AI interacts with disciplines such as robotics, space & satellite and digital technologies.

We also support start-ups and small businesses who wish to develop the use of AI through our AI Accelerator Programme.

Industry Partners

The Bayes Centre hosts a number of companies using AI to create innovative solutions. Some of these include:

  • UBOK makes clinicians’ mental health expertise accessible, engaging, and scalable by creating digital prescriptions of automated therapeutic conversations.
  • Neurolabs creates image recognition technology for retail using object recognition algorithms based on synthetically generated data.
  • Urban Tide uses IoT and AI to identify and map assets helping cities and organisations to meet legislated targets and improve service delivery and citizen wellbeing.

Contact us if you are interested in working with AI at the Bayes Centre. For more information about University of Edinburgh’s extensive AI capability, please visit the Edinburgh AI page.

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