Tech Events at The National Robotarium, Edinburgh

A morning at the National Robotarium on agricultural robotics: autonomous field machinery, crop sensing and the economics of putting robots into food production. The Robotarium is the UK's largest applied robotics and AI centre and rarely opens its doors for a session this specific, which makes this a good route in for anyone working on agritech, sensing or field autonomy.

Heriot-Watt University's National Robotarium hosts a one-day workshop on rehabilitation robotics as it is actually used in clinical and community settings. The framing is deliberately applied rather than academic: devices that have reached patients, what clinicians need from them, and where the research and the practice diverge. The Robotarium is the UK's largest centre for robotics and autonomous systems, and the session puts clinicians and roboticists in the same room — a combination that is rarer than it should be, since most robotics events keep the engineering and the care side on separate programmes. Free, from 09:30 at the Robotarium on the Heriot-Watt campus. Why go: the gap between a working rehab robot and one a physiotherapist will actually use is the whole problem in this field, and this is the Edinburgh room where both sides of it are present. Best for robotics and medtech engineers, clinicians, and founders building assistive or rehabilitation hardware.

Third Doors Open Days slot at the National Robotarium — same tour, afternoon start.

Second Doors Open Days slot at the National Robotarium — same tour, later start.

The National Robotarium opens its doors for Doors Open Days 2026. A rare public look inside the UK's largest robotics and AI research centre, with live demonstrations.