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, more info at docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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 www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/rob...

New review article 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/1kxPtI8Pf2...

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-even...

Delighted to announce that Dr Mike Mangan, VP Research at Opteran ltd, 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... @opteran.bsky.social

The Royal Society is hosting our 2-day meeting on the "sense of self" this May in London. We have fantastic speakers from psychology/neuroscience, philosophy, and AI/robotics. In-person/online attendance is free. Poster submission now open royalsociety.org/science-even...

AGI needs embodiment! Listening to a great talk from ACM Athena Lecture award winner Maja Mataric at #HRI2025

At #HRI2025 with our HeyMiro demo. Great to meet the wider community in human-robot interaction :-) heymiro.org

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...

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

At the Children's AI Summit in London with our "Hey MIRo" demo :-) @shefrobotics.bsky.social

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

How can participatory design benefit from a posthumanist perspective? A short essay with Stuart Murray & Julie Robillard, published in BMJ MH, about the need for co-design methods that better acknowledge the entangled & interconnected nature of our technologised lives mh.bmj.com/content/50/4...

How should we co-design future assistive tech? Read about our experience in the "Imagining Technologies for Disability Futures" project in this new BMJ Medical Humanities special issue. 3 contributions from our Sheffield team :-) @michaelszollosy.bsky.social mh.bmj.com/content/50/4...

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 livingmachinesconference.eu/2025/plenary...

I'll be giving a public lecture in Sheffield, UK, based on my new book "The Psychology of Artificial Intelligence" on 23rd January, 5.30pm. If you'd like to come along please register by January 7th using this link docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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 tonyjprescott.com/2024/12/15/d... #robotics #socialrobots #robotethics

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 talk at Living Machines 2025 in Sheffield next July. CfP now open. livingmachinesconference.eu/2025/plenary... #lm2025

I recently published a review in Science Robotics on understanding the sense of self through robotics. Find out more at tonyjprescott.com/2024/12/02/u... #ai #robotics #psychology

AI tech from University of Sheffield is enabling drones to detect and tackle UK wildfires faster with thermal imaging and self-coordinated fire response. Find out more: electrooptics.com/article/swar...

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-fo... @shefrobotics.bsky.social

Delighted to have received my first review for #PsyofAI, and its from "The Psychologist"! Any other would be reviewers interested in being enlightened (even if slightly alarmed) please get in touch 😀 @psychmag.bsky.social www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

"What do robots sound like?” Prof Roger Moore, Chair of Spoken Language Processing at the University of Sheffield. Prof Moore interviewed by Game Audio Designer Ali Tocher, excellent series of podcasts! shows.acast.com/what-do-robo...

Come and join one of the largest UK centers for robotics. Its also a great place to live!

Hello @bsky.app We are Sheffield Robotics! Sheffield Robotics brings researchers from across disciplinary boundaries to drive forward the understanding, development, and integration of robots and automation. More info : www.sheffield.ac.uk/sheffieldrob...

"Understanding the Sense of Self Through Robotics" Authors: Prof T Prescott, Professor of Cognitive Robotics at Sheffield Robotics/School of Computer Science Prof K Vogeley, University Hospital Cologne Prof A Wykowska, Italian Institute of Technology, Genova www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Would people like a talking robot pet? We took our LLM-enabled MiRo-e robot to the Sheffield Festival of Mind to find out youtu.be/quVza0CED5o

In case you are wondering what "The Psychology of AI" is about I have put a summary on my blog tonyjprescott.com/2024/11/23/t...