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NOV 21

The Future of AI is tiny and physical

Artificial intelligence is often imagined as something vast, huge data centres and powerful systems hidden in the cloud. But another future of AI is already taking shape: smaller, closer to us and increasingly physical and contextual.

When
Saturday, 21 November 2026, 19:00
Where
The Royal Institution, 21 Albemarle Street, London, W1S 4BS
Format
Talk · In person
Price
£7.90 – £21.44
Organiser
The Royal Institution
Last checked
Monday, 17 August 2026

What to expect

Eiman Kanjo at the Royal Institution on the opposite of the data-centre story: small embedded models running on sensors, drones and wearables, adapting to the physical world with far less energy and much less reliance on the cloud.

Ninety minutes, around £8 to £21, in the Ri's theatre on Albemarle Street. A well-pitched evening if you build hardware, work in IoT, or simply want a view of AI that is not about ever-larger models — and the privacy argument for keeping inference on the device is a practical one, not just a philosophical one.

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