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The Cambridge Research Laboratory (CRL) was Toshiba’s first overseas corporate-level R&D laboratory. Originally called Toshiba Cambridge Research Centre, it was established in 1991 to undertake scientific studies which may lead to the semiconductor technology of 21st Century. Cambridge was chosen for the opportunities to collaborate with the University of Cambridge, one of the world’s top universities, and with the growing cluster of hi-tech companies based in the city, plus its good transport links to the UK and Continental Europe.
Professor Sir Michael Pepper, FREng FRS, led CRL from its inception to July 2007 when Professor Roberto Cipolla, FREng FRS, took over his role. In 1998, Toshiba Research Europe Limited (TREL) was incorporated following the formation of the Bristol Research and Innovation Laboratory in Bristol (originally Telecommunications Research Laboratory). From April 2020 CRL is part of Toshiba Europe Limited.
Our Research Areas
CRL currently consists of three research teams: Quantum Information, Language and Interaction, and Vision and Learning. Close collaboration is undertaken with the Cavendish Laboratory and Engineering Department of the University of Cambridge, as well as other Toshiba R&D groups. We have achieved a number of world firsts and successfully transferred technology into Toshiba products.
Quantum Information Group
Exploring the ultimate limit of Information Technology
The Quantum Information Group (QIG) is developing a new approach to information technology that applies the fundamental laws of Quantum Physics to network communications and computing.
Embodied AI
Combining physical presence with coopoerative intelligence
Embodied AI is at the forefront of building an ever-improving foundation of automated industrial Artificial Intelligence though Natural Interaction in Physical Space and with Language.
Latest Publications
Information contained in news and other announcements is current on the date of posting, but subject to change without notice.
Toshiba’s leading Cambridge Research Laboratory (CRL) doubles down on cutting edge embodied AI to bring AI into the real world.
Cambridge, United Kingdom – 17th June 2024
Davide G. Marangon, Peter R. Smith, Nathan Walk, Taofiq K. Paraïso, James F. Dynes, Victor Lovic, Mirko Sanzaro, Thomas Roger, Innocenzo De Marco, Marco Lucamarini, Zhiliang Yuan & Andrew J. Shields
P. Laccotripes T, CAV, T. Müller T, R.M. Stevenson T, J. Skiba-Szymanska T, D.A. Ritchie CAV, and A.J. Shields T
Arxiv (25 October 2023)
C. Couteau UTR, S. Barz IFM, IQST, T. Durt IF, T. Gerrits NIST, J. Huwer T, R. Prevedel CBB, J. Rarity ERB, A. Shields T and G. Weihs IFE
Nature Reviews Physics 5, pages 326–338 (26 May 2023)
A. Barbiero, A. Tuktamyshev, G. Pirard, J. Huwer, T. Müller, R. M. Stevenson, S. Bietti, S. Vichi, A. Fedorov, G. Bester, S. Sanguinetti and A. J. Shields, Phys. Rev.
Applied 18, 034081 (29 September 2022).
Y. S. Lo T, R. I. Woodward T, N. Walk T, M. Lucamarini T, I. De Marco T, T. K. Paraïso T, M. Pittaluga T, T. Roger T, M. Sanzaro T, Z. L. Yuan T and A. J. Shields T
APL Photonics 8, 036111 (20 March 2023)
arXiv:2304.00574
V. Martin CS, J. P. Brito CS, L. Ortiz CS, R. B. Mendez CS, J. S. Buruaga CS, R. J. Vicente CS, A. Sebastián-Lombraña CS, D. Rincon IMD, F. Perez IMD, C. Sanchez IMD, M. Peev MRC, H. H. Brunner MRC, F. Fung MRC, A. Poppe NQS, F. Fröwis NQS, A. J. Shields T, R. I. Woodward T, H. Griesser ANS, S. Roehrich RSC, F. De La Iglesia QU, C. Abellan QU, M. Hentschel AIT, J. M. Rivas-Moscoso TEL, A. Pastor TEL, J. Folgueira TEL and D. R. Lopez TEL
arXiv:2311.12791 (21 November 2023)
C. Couteau UTR, S. Barz IFM, IQST, T. Durt IF, T. Gerrits NIST, J. Huwer T, R. Prevedel CBB, J. Rarity ERB, A. Shields T and G. Weihs IFE
Nature Reviews Physics 5, pp. 354–363 (26 May 2023)
T. K. Paraïso T, T. Roger T, D. G. Marangon T, I. de Marco T, M. Sanzaro T, J. A. Dolphin T, ENG, R. I. Woodward T, J. F. Dynes T, Z. Yuan T, A. J. Shields T
SPIE Proceedings Volume 12430, Quantum Sensing and Nano Electronics and Photonics XIX; 124300D (15 March 2023)
B. Griffiths T, Y. S. Lo T, J. F. Dynes T, R. I. Woodward T and A. J. Shields T
Phys. Rev. Applied 20, 044040 (16 October 2023)
F Logothetis, I Budvytis, R Cipolla
WACV 2024
S Morad, R Kortvelesy, M Bettini, S Liwicki, A Prorok
ICLR May 2023
S Morad, R Kortvelesy, S Liwicki, A Prorok,
NeurIPS 2023
G Wu, C Zhang, S Liwicki,
BMVC 2023
C Zhang, S Liwicki, S He, W Smith, R Cipolla,
In TPAMI
B. Serhan, H. Pandya, A. Kucukyilmaz, G. Neumann
ICRA, May 2022
P Pathre, A Sahu, A Rao, A Prabhu, M Nigam, T Karandikar, H Pandya, M Krishna
ROBIO 2022, December 2022 / arXiv
A. Paren, L. Berrada, R. P. K. Poudel, MP. Kumar
Journal of Machine Learning Research / arXiv
P Somaiya, H Pandya, R Polvara, M Hanheide, G Cielniak
NeurIPS Workshop, December 2022
R. P. K. Poudel, H. Pandya, R. Cipolla
NeurIPS Workshop, December 2022 / arXiv
A. Paren, R. P. K. Poudel
BMVC, November 2022
C. Zhang, S. Liwicki, R. Cipolla
BMVC, November 2022
H. Pandya, R. P. K. Poudel, S. Liwicki
IROS, October 2022
F. Logothetis, R. Mecca, I. Budvytis, R. Cipolla
International Journal of Computer Vision / arXiv
A. Paren, R. P. K. Poudel, M. Pawan Kumar
Transactions of Machine Learning Research
Rudra P.K. Poudel, Harit Pandya, Stephan Liwick, Roberto Cipolla
Cambridge Research Laboratory Toshiba Europe Ltd, UK
Chao Zhang, Mohan Li, Ignas Budvytis, Stephan Liwicki
Toshiba Europe Ltd
On the effectiveness of monoaural target source extraction for distant end-to-end automatic speech recognition
T-C Zorilă and R. Doddipatla
Accepted at the 2023 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2023), Rhodes Island, Greece, June 2023
M Li and R. Doddipatla
Proc. IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT 2022), Doha, Qatar, January 2023
Cumulative Attention based streaming transformer ASR with internal language model joint training and rescoring
M. Li, C-T Do and R. Doddipatla
Accepted at the 2023 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2023), Rhodes Island, Greece, June 2023
Frame-wise and overlap-robust speaker embeddings for meeting diarization
T. Cord-Landwehr, C. Boeddeker, T-C Zorilă, R. Doddipatla and R. Haeb-Umbach
Accepted at the 2023 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2023), Rhodes Island, Greece, June 2023
M. Li, S. Zhang, T.C. Zorila, and R. Doddipatla
Proc. IEEE ICASSP 2022, Singapore
T.C. Zorila and R. Doddipatla
Proc. IEEE ICASSP 2022, Singapore
C-T Do, M. Li and R. Doddipatla
Proc. Interspeech 2022, Incheon, Korea, September 2022 / arXiv
M. Li, R. Doddipatla and T-C Zorilă
Proc. Interspeech 2022, Incheon, Korea, September 2022
S. Stoyanchev, S. Pandey, S. Keizer, N. Braunschweiler and R. Doddipatla
Proc. 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2022), Edinburgh, UK, September 2022
J. Zhang, T-C Zorila, R. Doddipatla and J. Barker
Proc. Interspeech 2022, Incheon, Korea, September 2022
Comparing human emotion perception and automatic emotion recognition of user turns in human-machine dialogues
N. Braunschweiler, R. Doddipatla, S. Keizer, and S. Stoyanchev
Proc. UK Speech 2022, Edinburgh, UK, September 2022
Y. Farag, C. O. Brand, J. Amidei, P. Piwek, T. Stafford, S. Stoyanchev and A. Vlachos
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022, Abu Dhabi, December 2022
T. Cord-Landwehr, C. Boeddeker, T. von Neumann, T-C Zorilă, R. Doddipatla and R. Haeb-Umbach
Proc. 2022 International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), Bamberg, Germany