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Access Week 2025: From Local to Global

Designed to emulate 'a week in the life of an Oxford undergraduate', Access Week is an annual summer residential at Pembroke College. Select pupils from our target regions who have participated in our Access and Outreach programmes were invited to attend the residential, which took place this summer. We welcomed 120 pupils who participated in tutorials, seminars, mock interviews, academic trips, and much more.

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Reflections of a Recent Pembroke Graduate

Michaelmas term is fast approaching, which can only mean one thing – an onslaught of Freshers will be imminently arriving to Oxford and Pembroke. Starting university can be a big transition for anyone. We thought we’d ask one of our fresh graduates, Rohit Ghosh, to reflect on his time at Pembroke, looking all the way back to his own Freshers’ week.

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National Coverage for Self-Driving Vehicle Public Trials and Prof. Ingmar Posner’s Spin-Out Company Oxbotica

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A self-driving vehicle has been successfully trialled in UK public space for the first time. Pembroke Fellow and Tutor in Engineering Professor Ingmar Posner is the Deputy Director of the newly founded Oxford Robotics Institute and co-founder of Oxbotica, which teamed up with the Transport Systems Catapult (TSC) to conduct the trials in Milton Keynes earlier this week.

The autonomous vehicle software used for the project, called Selenium, originated in the Oxford Robotics Institute and was integrated onto a electric vehicles by Oxbotica.

This week’s trials involved an autonomous pod (the ‘LUTZ Pathfinder’) driving a regular route around public pavements of the city’s train station and business district. The trials attracted widespread media interest from channels such as the BBC, Sky News and The Guardian, with reporters and presenters vying to be a passenger in one of the LUTZ pods.

The Oxford Robotics Institute has released a video of the trials on YouTube.

The LUTZ Pathfinder project has now reached its conclusion after 18 months and the hope is that, eventually, vehicles like these will be used for local transport in urban areas.

Graeme Smith, CEO of Oxbotica, told the University of Oxford news team ‘The TSC's Lutz Pathfinder project is a great example of Oxbotica's autonomy software leading the way for self-driving vehicles here in the UK. This is a landmark step towards bringing self-driving vehicles to the streets of the UK and the world’.