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Tony Prescott

@tonyjprescott

Professor of Cognitive Robotics. Biomimetics, Neuroscience, AI, Living Machines, Edutech, Assisted Living

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Fab, my book #PsyofAI got reviewed in The Psychologist. Any other potential reviewers looking to be enlightened (even if slightly alarmed) please get in touch 😀 @tandfpsychology Sheffield Comp Sci

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We are hosting the 14th edition of the Living Machines International conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems in my home city of Sheffield, UK, in July 2025. Please think of submitting a paper. We'd love to see you there! livingmachinesconference.eu/2025/call-for-… @shefrobotics

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Delighted to announce that Prof Agniezska Wykowska, head of the Social Cognition in Human-Robot Interaction unit at the Italian Institute of Technology, will give a plenary at Living Machines 2025 in Sheffield next July. CfP now open livingmachinesconference.eu/2025/plenary-s… #lm2025 Agnieszka Wykowska

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My lecture this Thursday on "The Psychology of Artificial Intelligence" will now be livestreamed from around 5-5.15pm GMT (n.b. registration now closed for in-person attendance). If interested, please join by this link meet.google.com/qbk-hagv-nrc

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Delighted to announce that Prof Murray Shanahan, of Google DeepMInd and Imperial College London, will give a plenary talk "What Sort of Thing is a Large Language Model?" at Living Machines 2025 in Sheffield next July. CfP now open. livingmachinesconference.eu/2025/plenary-s…

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Congratulations to our spin-out BOW ltd on gaining £4 million seed funding for robot agnostic software. Im very proud to have been involved in getting this far sheffield.ac.uk/news/universit… Daniel Camilleri Sheffield Comp Sci

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Delighted to announce that Dr Maria Guix, of Uni. Barcelona, a rising star in the field of nanotechnology, will give a plenary talk "Designing Biohybrid Robots" at Living Machines 2025 in Sheffield next July. CfP now open till March 30th livingmachinesconference.eu/2025/plenary-s…

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The The Royal Society is hosting a 2-day meeting on Sense of Self this May in London. We have fantastic speakers from psychology/neuroscience, philosophy, and AI/robotics. Attendance is free. Poster submission now open royalsociety.org/science-events… Agnieszka Wykowska Sarah Garfinkel paul verschure

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Delighted to announce that Dr Mike Mangan, VP Research at Opteran Technologies, will give a plenary "Opteran: Reverse engineering insect brains to create minds for machines" at Living Machines 2025, Sheffield this July. CfP open till April 14th livingmachinesconference.eu/2025/plenary-s… Michael Mangan

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Thanks to everyone who has signed up to join our @RoyalSociety meeting on "sense of self". Free registration (onine or in-person) is still open, and we will consider poster submissions up to 1 week before the meeting. We'd love to see you there! royalsociety.org/science-events…

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New review with Alejandro Jimenez-Rodriguez "Understanding the layered brain architecture for motivation: dynamical systems, computational neuroscience, and robotic approaches" in Psychology of Learning and Motivation v.165. Free download via this link authors.elsevier.com/a/1kxPtI8Pf2CMC

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I will be giving an online seminar "Analysis and synthesis of the embodied self: A robotics perspective" this Wednesday at 11am. Its open to the general public and free, you can register here plymouth.ac.uk/research/robot… Sheffield Comp Sci

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We are hosting a workshop on biomimetic cognitive architectures on July 15th as part of #LM25 the International Living Machines conference in Sheffield. Still space for some short talks, info at docs.google.com/document/d/1oX…

We are hosting a workshop on biomimetic cognitive architectures on July 15th as part of #LM25 the International Living Machines conference in Sheffield.  Still space for some short talks, info at docs.google.com/document/d/1oX…