Improving lives through AI

Press/Media: Research

Period10 Feb 2025

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  • TitleImproving lives through AI
    Media name/outletScottish Government
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date10/02/25
    DescriptionArtificial Intelligence (AI) is to be harnessed to develop technologies to address issues such as cancer risk amongst rescue workers.

    The latest round of the Scottish Government’s CivTech programme has awarded up to £9 million to 14 companies developing AI products to tackle challenges faced by charities and public sector organisations. CivTech 10 is the first round of the programme to focus on AI.

    Drones and an automated mapping system from EOLAS and The University of Edinburgh to monitor puffin colonies in a less invasive way.
    PersonsCaroline Nichol