AI & Innovation

Provides machine learning expertise to accelerate NHM research and digitisation programmes.

Team lead
Contact ai@nhm.ac.uk
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Ben Scott Head of AI and Innovation
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In 2022 the AI & Innovation team was established within the Digital, Data and Informatics theme* to provide machine learning expertise to accelerate NHM research and digitisation programmes.

Our Mission

Through harnessing today's data science and AI revolution, we can accelerate a pathway towards the Natural History Museum's goals and help unlock the potential of its collections and science.

Our efforts focus on three key areas:

  1. Advancing rates of digitisation through machine-augmented data extraction and robotics.
  2. Automation of real-time species monitoring and identification.
  3. Building a planetary knowledge base, a graph of life constructed from collections and literature.