Tony Prescott

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

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… @danielJCam13 @shefcompsci

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…

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… @shefcompsci

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

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…

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 livingmachinesconference.eu/2025/plenary-s… @MichaelManganUK

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 royalsociety.org/science-events… @A_Wykowska @DrSFink @PaulVerschure

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…

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…

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

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 @A_Wykowska

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

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