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

Sheffield, UK
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Tony Prescott
4 months
Thanks to everyone who joined our @royalsociety meeting on the Sense of Self in-person or online. We had a fantastic event with great talks and discussions. Look out for our Phil Trans B theme issue coming early next year @A_Wykowska @DrSFink @PaulVerschure
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Tony Prescott
3 months
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 https://t.co/97lIE9lxkg
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Tony Prescott
4 months
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 https://t.co/melXPhVDiL @shefcompsci
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University of Plymouth research: Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems (CRNS). Events and seminar series.
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Tony Prescott
4 months
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
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Tony Prescott
5 months
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! https://t.co/EEXx9KwEZs
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Discussion meeting organised by Professor Tony Prescott, Professor Agnieszka Wykowska, Professor Sarah Garfinkel, and Professor Paul Verschure.
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Tony Prescott
6 months
Delighted to announce that Dr Mike Mangan, VP Research at @opterantech, 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 https://t.co/tc3D1MX9Gc @MichaelManganUK
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Tony Prescott
6 months
The @royalsociety 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 https://t.co/EEXx9KwEZs @A_Wykowska @DrSFink @PaulVerschure
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Discussion meeting organised by Professor Tony Prescott, Professor Agnieszka Wykowska, Professor Sarah Garfinkel, and Professor Paul Verschure.
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Tony Prescott
6 months
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
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Tony Prescott
7 months
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 https://t.co/bXzQribwcM @danielJCam13 @shefcompsci
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A University of Sheffield spinout company that is set to help developers overcome the cost and complexity of programming robots, has secured £4 million in funding.
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Tony Prescott
7 months
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.
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Tony Prescott
8 months
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
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Tony Prescott
9 months
I'll be giving a public lecture in Sheffield, UK, based on my new book "The Psychology of Artificial Intelligence" on 23rd January. Please register by January 7th if you'd like to come along (form is in the reply to this message). @ShefRobotics @shefcompsci
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Tony Prescott
8 months
More information at
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Tony Prescott
8 months
Delighted to announce that Dr Kaushik Jayaram, from the University of Colorado, a leading light in the field of robot modelling of legged animals will give a plenary talk at Living Machines 2025 in Sheffield in July. CfP now open. #lm2025
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Tony Prescott
9 months
I'll be giving a public lecture in Sheffield, UK, based on my new book "The Psychology of Artificial Intelligence" on 23rd January. Please register by January 7th if you'd like to come along (form is in the reply to this message). @ShefRobotics @shefcompsci
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Tony Prescott
9 months
Co-authored with @ScientificChick
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Tony Prescott
9 months
Are social robots deceptive? In this new blog post, I argue that social robots are not deceptive when they are designed to respect some important principles based on a relational view of ethics https://t.co/vtvUoVkAIS #robotics #socialrobots #robotethics
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There is increasing interest in social robots as assistive technologies to support a wide range of potential user groups.  Nevertheless, the widespread use of robots has been challenged in terms of…
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Tony Prescott
10 months
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 https://t.co/tc3D1MWBQE #lm2025 @A_Wykowska
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Tony Prescott
10 months
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! https://t.co/C9q2RWd1WB @shefrobotics
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Tony Prescott
10 months
Fab, my book #PsyofAI got reviewed in @psychmag. Any other potential reviewers looking to be enlightened (even if slightly alarmed) please get in touch 😀 @tandfpsychology @shefcompsci
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The Psychologist
10 months
Enlightening, and slightly alarming… @tonyjprescott 'The Psychology of Artificial Intelligence', reviewed by Zilong Zhong. https://t.co/AuFCW4uw9y
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