Goodwood Festival of Speed unveils Future Lab lineup for 2026

The Goodwood Festival of Speed has introduced the exhibitor lineup for its 2026 Future Lab exhibition, bringing collectively firms and analysis organizations working in robotics, AI, quantum computing, healthcare, area exploration and digital applied sciences.

Positioned on the centre of the Pageant of Velocity, Future Lab is predicted to draw greater than 90,000 guests over the four-day occasion and also will host a STEM programme involving greater than 1,000 college college students from throughout the UK.

This yr’s exhibition is organised round 4 themes: Unseen Worlds, Clever Techniques, New Frontiers, and Extending Actuality.

Guests will have the ability to discover applied sciences together with tactile robotic arms, AI-powered healthcare platforms, quantum computing, lunar exploration, underwater habitats and brain-computer interfaces.

Lucy Johnston, curator of FOS Future Lab, mentioned the exhibition brings collectively innovators and researchers creating applied sciences that would form the longer term throughout a number of industries.

Healthcare

Headline accomplice Randox will display its RanChip Perception 360 platform, which mixes Biochip Expertise with predictive modelling to evaluate future well being dangers throughout greater than 150 medical situations utilizing tons of of biomarkers.

Unseen Worlds

IBM will show its Quantum Chandelier, a visible illustration of the quantum computing {hardware} utilized in IBM System One, alongside the Nationwide Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) and Quantum Options.

The NQCC will current hands-on demonstrations explaining sensible quantum computing, whereas Berlin artist Robin Baumgarten will exhibit Quantum Jungle, an interactive set up illustrating ideas reminiscent of superposition and wave-particle duality.

Oxford-based Quantum Options will display compact quantum imaging programs able to capturing knowledge past the seen spectrum for functions together with agriculture and environmental monitoring.

Factum Basis will showcase superior digital preservation applied sciences, together with high-resolution facsimiles of cultural artefacts, historic artworks and archaeological websites.

Clever Techniques

System E will show its new GEN4 race automotive along with its Driver Agent AI system, developed with Google Cloud, which helps drivers analyse racing knowledge and optimise efficiency.

Robotics firm OLO Robotics will display AI-assisted software program that converts pure language instructions into robotic code, permitting guests to manage quadruped robots and cell rovers with out programming.

French firm Enchanted Instruments will exhibit its Mirokaï social robots, designed to work alongside folks in healthcare, hospitality and customer-facing environments.

New Frontiers

A devoted lunar exploration zone will look at NASA’s Artemis programme by interactive reveals from Darkish Star Labs, the European Area Company, the College of Sussex, Durham College and Inventive Hut.

Guests will have the ability to discover spacecraft simulations, lunar geology, Moon formation modelling and robotic teleoperation designed for future lunar missions.

UK aerospace firm Pulsar Fusion will current Sunbird, its idea for a fusion-powered “area tug” supposed to scale back journey occasions for future Mars missions.

Ocean know-how firm DEEP will showcase Vanguard, its underwater habitat designed to help prolonged human habitation beneath the ocean, along with demonstrations explaining its moon-pool entry system.

Extending Actuality

Sony Europe will display XYN, its digital twin and spatial seize platform, permitting guests to discover immersive digital environments.

Touchlab will showcase digital pores and skin know-how for robotic fingertips, enabling robots to detect contact with excessive sensitivity. Guests will have the ability to function a robotic hand utilizing a haptic glove.

Neurotechnology firm Emotiv will display wearable brain-computer interface know-how able to changing EEG indicators into personalised digital art work.

STEM programme

Alongside the exhibition, the Pageant’s STEM programme will present hands-on science, engineering and robotics actions for greater than 1,000 secondary college college students.

Inventive Hut will lead workshops based mostly on lunar exploration, encouraging college students to research robotics, engineering and problem-solving by interactive demonstrations.

Tim Peake, Future Lab ambassador, mentioned: “FOS Future Lab continues to encourage the subsequent technology by bringing guests and college students face-to-face with the most recent in science and know-how.

“We’re exhibiting younger those who the longer term isn’t one thing to think about, it’s one thing they will construct.”