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Society for Technological Advancement

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Society for Technological Advancement

@sotalikesfuture

The cross-disciplinary community for Britain's most promising scientists, engineers & technologists building things that matter.

London, England

Joined January 2024

Society for Technological Advancement
@sotalikesfuture
Jun 7, 2025
We are hosting a chapter of the @LeRobotHF global hackathon in London on the 14th and 15th of June. 1 week away! The Embodied Intelligence hackathon is all about enriching our physical world with robotics. Whether that's in generalised robotics, food preparation, navigation of
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Society for Technological Advancement
@sotalikesfuture
Feb 25, 2025
It's Time to Build... in Government complete! A fantastic evening in partnership with @civic_future, focused on promoting techno-scientific progress in government and generating system-level optimism about the transformative potential of technology. Thank you to our panellists,
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Society for Technological Advancement
@sotalikesfuture
Aug 6, 2025
Ever failed at something? Good. Come tell us about it. This Friday, we’re co-hosting "Fail Friday" - a night of raw stories and real lessons from scientists, engineers, founders, and makers who’ve learned the hard way. We'll celebrate embracing failure and expanding the risk
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Society for Technological Advancement
@sotalikesfuture
Jun 17, 2025
This past weekend, SoTA held the Embodied Intelligence Hackathon in London. We had dozens of teams competing for both our local prizes and @huggingface's global @lerobot challenges. SoTA's champions were: Overall prize (£1,000): Calum & James, for their low-cost lab
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Society for Technological Advancement
@sotalikesfuture
Jun 2, 2024
Day 1 recap: Teams have been formed, projects are underway. Neurotech enabled learning AI enabled Enzyme design Co2 capturing tech Turning complete LLMs (why? I guess we'll find out) And more! Thanks to @KAIKAKU_AI for the robotically assembled healthy bowls and @RedBullUK
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Society for Technological Advancement
@sotalikesfuture
Jun 25, 2025
@10DowningStreet recently wrote to SoTA's community. They're assembling a new, elite team of technologists to 'fundamentally rewire the state' and 'transform No10 and key areas of the government system through the applications of data science and AI'. Read the full letter to
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Society for Technological Advancement
@sotalikesfuture
Jul 7, 2025
SoTA’s Human Augmentation Hackathon, 26-27th July We’re seeking new tools that foster human-AI symbiosis. What you build will expand our capabilities, rather than writing us out of the story. Success will be judged against the following criteria: - Is your demo better than
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Society for Technological Advancement
@sotalikesfuture
Apr 28, 2025
The Rebooting State Capacity Hackathon is complete! SoTA’s developers, engineers, researchers and technologists worked alongside civil servants to build solutions to critical government challenges this past weekend. Kicking off with interactive sessions led by @PalantirTech and
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Society for Technological Advancement
@sotalikesfuture
Apr 11, 2025
SoTA's Rebooting State Capacity Hackathon, 26-27 April The opportunity to ship a new capability solving a real problem over a weekend, with direct feedback from end users, frontline operators and potential adopters across critical public functions. Our prizes include: 1. Grand
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Society for Technological Advancement
@sotalikesfuture
May 10, 2024
What could we uncover to accelerate a better future? Assert your agency at the Untapped Tech Tree Hackathon. SIGN UP TODAY forms.gle/M8ygWo3cNryPu1…
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Society for Technological Advancement
@sotalikesfuture
Jan 21, 2025
How can the UK fully exploit the opportunities generated by technological advancement? How can we build state capacity at the frontier of science & tech, suitable for the 21st & 22nd centuries? Can small groups of high-performance individuals make real progress in large and
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Society for Technological Advancement
@sotalikesfuture
May 12, 2025
We've been geo-engineering badly for over a century and a half, at what point can we actually learn to do it well? The Society for Technological Advancement (SoTA) is organising a hackathon on 31st May and 1st June focused on geoengineering and weather control. This is a
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Society for Technological Advancement
@sotalikesfuture
Aug 7, 2025
Welcome to SoTA Letters IV Writing Life From the Ground Up, Ola Wlodek @ola_wlodek Becoming Hardware Scientists, Calum Drysdale & James Baghurst @CalumDrysdale, @experilearning Introducing BAGEL for Protein Design, Jakub Lála @jakublala Replicating Five Peer-Reviewed Papers
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Welcome to SoTA Letters IV
Scientific replication with AI, writing life ground-up, protein design pipelines, aligning superintelligence, robo-chefs
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Society for Technological Advancement
@sotalikesfuture
Sep 13, 2024
Today we launch SoTA Letters – a new journal for technologists and scientists. We've heard from some exciting new innovators, and we're sharing 10 of their best letters with you. Join us for a tour 🧵
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