A deep dive into FOS Future Lab 2026

With FOS Future Lab partners for this year including Formula E and tech giant IBM, here’s our guide to who’s there, what they’ve built, and why it’s worth a long look.

Why visit FOS Future Lab?

FOS Future Lab is a window into what’s next, curated to ignite curiosity and inspire across generations. Think interactive experiences and hands-on opportunities, alongside a line-up of pioneering scientists, engineers and innovators showcasing what will shape life to come.

From fox-like robots and fusion propulsion to quantum computing and digital recreations of ancient artefacts, FOS Future Lab is a chance to explore your inner geek and challenge some of the smartest minds in the business.

It’s also an opportunity for younger visitors to engage with world-changing innovations and spark their imagination for STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics).

Where to find FOS Future Lab

For 2026, FOS Future Lab has moved closer to the cricket pitch, putting it within easy reach of many of the festival’s best food and drink outlets — handy for the in-between moments when you’ve had a deep and meaningful chat with a humanoid and need to decompress. 

The exhibition is open all four days of the event, with dedicated STEM workshops, illuminating panel discussions and interactive displays with accessibility for all ages.

FOS Future Lab is presented by Randox

Randox will again be the headline of FOS Future Lab in 2026, where the leading healthcare company will be showcasing what it claims is a world first.

RanChip Insight 360 is a preventative health intelligence platform featuring pioneering biomarker analysis designed to detect hidden risks, track long-term trends and help people take action sooner.

The system works by taking 250 biomarkers — such as blood sugar levels and cholesterol — and measuring them across 150 health conditions. At the heart of RanChip Insight 360 is the company’s proprietary Biochip Technology, which allows simultaneous analysis of multiple biomarkers from a single sample.

If this piques your interest, Randox representatives will be on hand at FOS Future Lab throughout the event, and look out for talks in the FOS Future Lab studio.

2026 FOS Future Lab themes

The 2026 FOS Future Lab is centred around four themes, each exploring a critical facet of technological innovation: New Frontiers, Unseen Worlds, Intelligent Systems and Extending Reality. 

New Frontiers: Discover the marvels of space travel and how we plan on returning to the Moon, or explore the depths of our oceans in ways we never thought possible. FOS Future Lab will show you how humankind is expanding its horizons.

Unseen Worlds: The power of computers can reveal the greatest mysteries of the universe, and you'll have the chance to understand how. Explore the hidden secrets of historic artefacts and decipher the complexities of quantum technology.

Intelligent Systems: Embrace the evolution of AI and robotics for good by meeting the humans — and humanoids — developing new skills and capabilities, plus don’t miss the chance to get hands-on.

Extending Reality: Experience virtual worlds beyond our own with the advanced digital tools extending reality, including headsets turning your brainwaves into art and Sony’s new platform for spatial content creators. 

2026 Future Lab exhibitors

New Frontiers 

Return to the Moon
Centred on Artemis II, the first crewed mission of NASA’s Artemis programme and the first humans to journey around the Moon in more than 50 years. Curated with the European Space Agency, Dark Star Labs and leading space scientists, the zone explores the engineering, the science and the human story behind humankind’s return to lunar exploration — with Sir Tim Peake on hand as Future Lab ambassador.

Deep
While Artemis goes up, British-founded engineering company Deep is going the other way by building the first new open ocean underwater human habitat in 40 years. Why? Because around 95 per cent of the ocean remains unexplored and could hold the answers to countless pharmaceutical, agricultural, and carbon-capture breakthroughs.

Pulsar Fusion
The British trailblazer is building Sunbird — a compact nuclear-fusion space tug designed to cut interplanetary travel times in half. Sunbirds would meet ships already fired into space and supercharge the rest of their journey. Pulsar also makes electric and hybrid rocket propulsion, from low-Earth orbit to the outer solar system.  

Unseen Worlds 

Factum Foundation/ARCHiOx
Using cutting-edge 3D scanning and digital imaging, the Factum Foundation is uncovering hidden worlds inside the world’s great artworks and artefacts — from medieval maps and Renaissance masterpieces to carved stone surfaces preserving the fingerprints of the people who made them.

National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC)
The UK’s national laboratory for quantum computing is bringing some of the strangest technology on the planet to FOS Future Lab — and making it tangible. If you want to get your head around how qubits could solve multiple complex calculations before classical computers have slipped into first gear, the NQCC is the place. 

Quantum Solutions
By turning quantum-dot science into aerial imaging tools that, in their words, “make the invisible visible”, Quantum Solutions is helping to detect everything from water leaks to flaws in solar arrays, even picking out objects hidden in smoke — at around a thousand times the resolution of satellite imaging.

Intelligent Systems

Enchanted Tools
Designed in Paris and deployed in hospital wards and airports, the fox-eared Mirokaï are unlike anything else in robotics. Built on an animated story, with expressive ears and animated faces, they sidestep the ‘uncanny valley’ entirely — and visitors who meet one will quickly find themselves saying hello back.

OLO Robotics
Sheffield startup OLO Robotics has built a way to program robots from a web browser using plain English — no PhD or coding experience required. Chaired by Raspberry Pi co-founder Liz Upton, OLO is bringing a stable of live robots to Goodwood, including one playing a complex game of Jenga.

Extending Reality

TouchLab
Edinburgh-based TouchLab has spent seven years building electronic skin that gives machines a genuine sense of touch. Their ultra-thin sensors, as fine as a human hair, wrap around robotic hands and capture pressure in three dimensions. At FOS Future Lab, visitors can slip on a haptic glove, control a robotic hand and feel what it touches in real time.

Emotiv 
The self-described ‘operating system for the brain’ builds wireless EEG headsets used in more than 20,000 scientific papers. At FOS Future Lab, Emotiv is debuting Brain Art — an immersive, single-person experience that turns your live brain activity into a personalised, aurora-inspired generative artwork.  

Sony XYN
Sony’s integrated hardware-and-software platform for spatial content creation, XYN, brings together motion capture, photorealistic 3D capture from mirrorless cameras, and a prototype 4K OLED headset for immersive creative work. A practical look at how the next generation of films, games and virtual production will be made.

STEM Lab: presented in partnership with Formula E and IBM

As proud partners of the Goodwood STEM Programme for 2026, Formula E and IBM are bringing hands-on STEM experiences to FOS Future Lab, connecting the on-track innovation of all-electric racing with AI and quantum-powered computing for high-performance vehicle design.

Expect interactive challenges and demonstrations designed to inspire the next generation of engineers and technologists.

Randox is a global leader in diagnostics, revolutionising patient outcomes through innovative technologies, including its patented biochip technology. This pioneering diagnostic platform allows for the simultaneous detection of multiple biomarkers from a single sample, delivering faster, more accurate, and comprehensive results. Operating in over 145 countries, Randox develops advanced laboratory instruments, high-quality reagents, and innovative testing solutions to improve global healthcare.

Randox Health brings this cutting-edge technology directly to individuals, offering bespoke, preventative health testing programs. With world-class laboratories and personalised health insights, Randox Health enables early detection of a wide range of conditions, helping individuals take control of their health.

Together, Randox and Randox Health are redefining diagnostics and preventative healthcare. For more information, visit www.randox.com and www.randoxhealth.com.

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