Professor Tony Prescott
MA, MSc, PhD, CPsychol FBPsS
School of Computer Science
Professor of Cognitive Robotics
T.J.Prescott@sheffield.ac.uk
Regent Court (DCS)
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Professor Tony Prescott
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
- Profile
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Tony Prescott is Professor of Cognitive Robotics at the University of Sheffield, UK, and the co-founder and former director of Sheffield Robotics, a cross-disciplinary research institute across both Universities in Sheffield. He is also an active member of the Sheffield Neuroscience Institute. He is a fellow of the British Psychological Society, was a Sage Centre for the Study of Mind Distinguished Fellow in 2018, and a finalist in the 2022 Ana Avatar competition for telepresence robotics.
Tony’s research mixes robotics and artificial intelligence with psychology, brain theory and philosophy and aims at answering questions about the human condition by creating synthetic entities with animal or human-like capacities such as perception, memory, emotion and sense of self. His approach takes a posthuman perspective, examining the ever-deepening relationship between our species and the technologies we create. He also regularly speaks and writes about the societal and cultural impacts of future robotic, AI, virtual reality and telepresence technologies.
Tony has published over 240 articles and conference papers at the interface of robotics, AI, psychology, and neuroscience, and has received £10M in grant funding from UKRI, InnovateUK, the European Framework and Horizon Europe programmes and the Wellcome Trust. He is the co-creator of the award-winning animal-like robots Scratchbot, Shrewbot and MiRo-e, and the lead editor of The Scholarpedia of Touch, published by Springer, and of Living Machines: A Handbook of Research in Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems published by Oxford University Press. He co-founded and co-chairs the annual international Living Machines conference.
Tony has co-founded two robotics spin-out companies, Consequential Robotics, developing education and assistive living technologies, and Bettering Our Worlds (BOW), who develop software that makes it easier to program robots. He is also passionate about the use of robots in STEM education and founded the Skills and Education in Robotics and AI network. Tony’s research is regularly featured in online and print media and has been covered by the BBC One Show, BBC Breakfast, Tomorrow’s World Live, BBC Sunday Morning, Sky News and BBC Radio 4 Today, World at One, Costing the Earth, Inside Science and Material World. International coverage has included the Discovery Channel, Arte Channel, and CNN.
Tony maintains profiles on ResearchGate and Linkedin, and a Youtube Channel with links to online interviews, talks and movies about his robots and research. He has authored several shorter pieces of general interest, about artificial intelligence and robotics, for the online magazine The Conversation.
- Qualifications
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- MA Psychology (Edinburgh)
- MSc Applied Artificial Intelligence (Aberdeen)
- PhD Machine Learning (Sheffield)
- CPsychol FBPsS.
- Research interests
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My research is within the areas of cognitive neuroscience, artificial intelligence and bio-inspired robotics. A particular focus is on the investigation of biomimetic and biohybrid systems: an example of the former would be an animal-like or humanoid robot, of the latter a human-machine interface.
Current research is directed towards:
- social cognition for humanoid robots including the possibility synthetic autobiographical memory and of a robot "sense of self”;
- active touch sensing for attention, orienting, and spatial memory;
- assistive and companion robotic technologies;
- haptic interfaces for sensory augmentation;
- telepresence robotics, and
- societal and ethical issues in technology.
Some of my research is done under the auspices of the Department's Adaptive Behaviour Research Group and the Active Touch Laboratory.
- Publications
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Books
- The psychology of artificial intelligence. Routledge. View this article in WRRO
- Living machines. Oxford University Press.
- Living Machines 2012: the First International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems..
Edited books
- The Pragmatic Turn. The MIT Press.
- Encyclopedia: Touch. Scholarpedia Corporation. View this article in WRRO
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics): Preface..
- Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems - First International Conference, Living Machines 2012, Barcelona, Spain, July 9-12, 2012. Proceedings. Springer.
- Modelling Natural Action Selection. Cambridge Univ Pr.
- Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems - 12th Annual Conference, TAROS 2011, Sheffield, UK, August 31 - September 2, 2011. Proceedings. Springer.
- Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems. Springer.
Journal articles
- Studying exploration in RL: An optimal transport analysis of occupancy measure trajectories. Transactions on Machine Learning Research. View this article in WRRO
- Understanding the layered brain architecture for motivation: Dynamical systems, computational neuroscience, and robotic approaches. Psychology of Learning and Motivation - Advances in Research and Theory, 82, 45-96. View this article in WRRO
- Exploring the influence of perceived extroversion in embodied virtual agents on trust and likability. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 35(2). View this article in WRRO
- Influence of user personality traits and attitudes on interactions with social robots: systematic review. Collabra: Psychology, 11(1). View this article in WRRO
- Towards a critical posthumanist perspective on participatory design. Medical Humanities, 50, 715-716. View this article in WRRO
- Understanding the sense of self through robotics. Science Robotics, 9(95). View this article in WRRO
- Synthesizing the temporal self: robotic models of episodic and autobiographical memory. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 379(1913). View this article in WRRO
- Simulated dopamine modulation of a neurorobotic model of the basal ganglia. Biomimetics, 9(3). View this article in WRRO
- Editorial of the special issue on human-like behavior and cognition in robots. International Journal of Social Robotics, 15(8), 1261-1263. View this article in WRRO
- Understanding brain functional architecture through robotics. Science Robotics, 8(78). View this article in WRRO
- A robotic model of hippocampal reverse replay for reinforcement learning. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 18(1).
- Towards emotionally aligned social robots for dementia: perspectives of care partners and persons with dementia. Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association, 18(S2), e059261-e059261. View this article in WRRO
- Robot telepresence as a practical tool for responsible and open research in Trustworthy Autonomous Systems. Journal of Responsible Technology, 12.
- User perspectives on emotionally aligned social robots for older adults and persons living with dementia. Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering, 9.
- Scaffolding layered control architectures through constraint closure : insights into brain evolution and development. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 377(1844). View this article in WRRO
- Socially assistive robots as mental health interventions for children : a scoping review. International Journal of Social Robotics, 13(5), 919-935.
- Collinear mecanum drive: modelling, analysis, partial feedback linearisation, and nonlinear control. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 37(2), 642-658. View this article in WRRO
- The effect of direct and extended contact on attitudes towards social robots. Heliyon, 7(3). View this article in WRRO
- Are friends electric? The benefits and risks of human-robot relationships. iScience, 24(1).
- A systematic review of attitudes, anxiety, acceptance, and trust towards social robots. International Journal of Social Robotics, 12, 1179-1201.
- Addressing the ethics of telepresence applications through end-user engagement. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 76(2), 457-460.
- Learning from sensory predictions for autonomous and adaptive exploration of object shape with a tactile robot. Neurocomputing, 382, 127-139.
- Dual-mode model predictive control of an omnidirectional wheeled inverted pendulum. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 24(6), 2964-2975. View this article in WRRO
- Memory and mental time travel in humans and social robots. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 374(1771), 20180025-20180025.
- The Human Brain Project: Responsible brain research for the benefit of society. Neuron, 101(3), 380-384. View this article in WRRO
- Robotic automation can improve the lives of people who need social care. BMJ, 364. View this article in WRRO
- The combinatorial creature: cortical phenotypes within and across lifetimes. Trends in Neurosciences, 41(10), 744-762. View this article in WRRO
- Whisker touch sensing guides locomotion in small, quadrupedal mammals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285(1880). View this article in WRRO
- The effects of robot facial emotional expressions and gender on child-robot interaction in a field study. Connection Science, 30(4), 343-361. View this article in WRRO
- iCub-HRI: A software framework for complex human-robot interaction scenarios on the iCub humanoid robot. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 5. View this article in WRRO
- DAC-h3: A proactive robot cognitive architecture to acquire and express knowledge about the world and the self. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, 10(4), 1005-1022. View this article in WRRO
- Feeling the Shape: Active Exploration Behaviors for Object Recognition With a Robotic Hand. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 48(12), 2339-2348. View this article in WRRO
- Editorial: Ethical principles of robotics. Connection Science, 29(3), 187-188. View this article in WRRO
- Robots are not just tools. Connection Science, 29(2), 142-149. View this article in WRRO
- Multisensory Wearable Interface for Immersion and Telepresence in Robotics. IEEE Sensors Journal, 17(8), 2534-2541. View this article in WRRO
- Whisker touch guides canopy exploration in a nocturnal, arboreal rodent, the Hazel dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius). Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology, 203, 133-142. View this article in WRRO
- IntelliTable: Inclusively-Designed Furniture with Robotic Capabilities. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 242, 565-572. View this article in WRRO
- Active sensorimotor control for tactile exploration. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 87, 15-27. View this article in WRRO
- Head-mounted Sensory Augmentation Device: Designing a Tactile Language. IEEE Transaction on Haptics, 9(3), 376-386. View this article in WRRO
- Tactile Superresolution and Biomimetic Hyperacuity. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 31(3), 605-618. View this article in WRRO
- Me in the machine. New Scientist, 225(3013), 36-39. View this article in WRRO
- EDITORIAL. Connection Science, 27(1), 1-2.
- Strategy change in vibrissal active sensing during rat locomotion.. Curr Biol, 24(13), 1507-1512.
- Biomimetic tactile target acquisition, tracking and capture. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 62(3), 366-375.
- Active touch sensing: finger tips, whiskers, and antennae. FRONTIERS IN BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE, 8.
- Abnormalities in whisking behaviour are associated with lesions in brain stem nuclei in a mouse model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.. Behav Brain Res, 259, 274-283.
- Editorial. Connection Science, 26(1), 1-4.
- Whisker movements reveal spatial attention: a unified computational model of active sensing control in the rat.. PLoS Comput Biol, 9(9), e1003236.
- The evolution of active vibrissal sensing in mammals: Evidence from vibrissal musculature and function in the marsupial possum Monodelphis domestica. Journal of Experimental Biology, 216(18), 3483-3494.
- Vibrissal touch sensing in the harbor seal (Phoca vitulina): how do seals judge size?. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol, 199(6), 521-533.
- The state of the art in biomimetics.. Bioinspir Biomim, 8(1), 013001.
- TAROS2011. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 60(11), 1355.
- An internal model architecture for novelty detection: implications for cerebellar and collicular roles in sensory processing.. PLoS One, 7(9), e44560.
- Towards hierarchical blackboard mapping on a whiskered robot. Robotics and Autonomous Systems.
- Optimal decision-making in mammals: insights from a robot study of rodent texture discrimination.. J R Soc Interface, 9(72), 1517-1528.
- The effect of whisker movement on radial distance estimation: a case study in comparative robotics.. Front Neurorobot, 6, 12.
- The role of orienting in vibrissal touch sensing.. Front Behav Neurosci, 6, 39.
- Tactile discrimination using active whisker sensors. IEEE Sensors Journal, 12(2), 350-362.
- Active vibrissal sensing in rodents and marsupials.. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 366(1581), 3037-3048.
- Biomimetic vibrissal sensing for robots.. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 366(1581), 3085-3096.
- Active touch sensing.. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 366(1581), 2989-2995.
- Neural computation via neural geometry: a place code for inter-whisker timing in the barrel cortex?. PLoS Comput Biol, 7(10), e1002188.
- The development of whisker control in rats in relation to locomotion. Developmental Psychobiology.
- Adaptive cancelation of self-generated sensory signals in a whisking robot. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 26(6), 1065-1076.
- Modeling the emergence of whisker direction maps in rat barrel cortex.. PLoS One, 5(1), e8778.
- BRAHMS: Novel middleware for integrated systems computation. ADV ENG INFORM, 24(1), 49-61.
- The ventral basal ganglia, a selection mechanism at the crossroads of space, strategy, and reward.. Prog Neurobiol, 90(4), 385-417.
- Response times for visually guided saccades in persons with Parkinson's disease: A meta-analytic review. Neuropsychologia, 48(4), 887-899.
- Whisking with Robots From Rat Vibrissae to Biomimetic Technology for Active Touch. IEEE ROBOT AUTOM MAG, 16(3), 42-50.
- Learning cortical representations from multiple whisker inputs. BMC Neuroscience, 10(Suppl ), P334. View this article in WRRO
- Hippocampal formation as unitary coherent particle filter. BMC Neuroscience, 10(S1).
- Contact type dependency of texture classification in a whiskered mobile robot. Autonomous Robots, 26(4), 223-239.
- Technical integration of hippocampus, Basal Ganglia and physical models for spatial navigation.. Front Neuroinform, 3, 6.
- Active touch sensing in the rat: anticipatory and regulatory control of whisker movements during surface exploration.. J Neurophysiol, 101(2), 862-874.
- Action selection.. Scholarpedia, 3, 2705-2705.
- Spike-timing in primary sensory neurons: a model of somatosensory transduction in the rat.. Biol Cybern, 98(3), 185-194.
- Minimizing Human Intervention in the Development of Basal Ganglia‐Inspired Robot Control. Applied Bionics and Biomechanics, 4(3), 101-109.
- Whiskerbot: A robotic active touch system modeled on the rat whisker sensory system. ADAPT BEHAV, 15(3), 223-240.
- Who dominates who in the dark basements of the brain?. BEHAV BRAIN SCI, 30(1), 104-+.
- Introduction. Modelling natural action selection.. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 362(1485), 1521-1529.
- Is there a brainstem substrate for action selection?. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 362(1485), 1627-1639.
- Forced moves or good tricks in design space? Landmarks in the evolution of neural mechanisms for action selection. ADAPT BEHAV, 15(1), 9-31.
- Feedback control in active sensing: rat exploratory whisking is modulated by environmental contact.. Proc Biol Sci, 274(1613), 1035-1041.
- Minimizing human intervention in the development of basal ganglia-inspired robot control. Applied Bionics and Biomechanics, 4(3), 101-109.
- A new dissimilarity measure for finding semantic structure in category fluency data with implications for understanding memory organization in schizophrenia.. Neuropsychology, 20(6), 685-699.
- A robot model of the basal ganglia: Behavior and intrinsic processing. NEURAL NETWORKS, 19(1), 31-61.
- The brainstem reticular formation is a small-world, not scale-free, network. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 273(1585), 503-511.
- A Biomimetic Haptic Sensor. International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2(4).
- Is there an integrative center in the vertebrate brain-stem? A robotic evaluation of a model of the reticular formation viewed as an action selection device. ADAPT BEHAV, 13(2), 97-113.
- Testing computational hypotheses of brain systems function: a case study with the basal ganglia. Network: Computation in Neural Systems, 15(4), 263-290.
- Testing computational hypotheses of brain systems function: a case study with the basal ganglia.. Network, 15(4), 263-290.
- Empirically inspired simulated electro-mechanical model of the rat mystacial follicle-sinus complex.. Proc Biol Sci, 271(1556), 2509-2516.
- Computational models of the basal ganglia: from robots to membranes.. Trends Neurosci, 27(8), 453-459.
- Connectionist simulation of attitude learning: asymmetries in the acquisition of positive and negative evaluations.. Pers Soc Psychol Bull, 29(10), 1221-1235.
- Continuity and change in the development of category structure: Insights from the semantic fluency task. INT J BEHAV DEV, 27(5), 467-479.
- A basal ganglia inspired model of action selection evaluated in a robotic survival task.. J Integr Neurosci, 2(2), 179-200.
- Biorobotics: Methods and Applications. Based on a symposium held in Orlando, Florida, 23–25 October 1998. Edited by Barbara Webb and , Thomas R Consi. Menlo Park (California): American Association for Artificial Intelligence Press; Cambridge (Massachusetts): MIT Press. $35.00 (paper). xiv + 208 p; ill.; index. ISBN: 0–262–73141‐X. 2001.. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 77(3), 362-362.
- A computational model of action selection in the basal ganglia. II. Analysis and simulation of behaviour.. Biol Cybern, 84(6), 411-423.
- A computational model of action selection in the basal ganglia. I. A new functional anatomy.. Biol Cybern, 84(6), 401-410.
- The basal ganglia: a vertebrate solution to the selection problem?. Neuroscience, 89(4), 1009-1023.
- Is the short-latency dopamine response too short to signal reward error?. Trends Neurosci, 22(4), 146-151.
- Layered control architectures in robots and vertebrates. ADAPT BEHAV, 7(1), 99-127.
- Kinematic coordination of reach and balance.. J Mot Behav, 30(3), 217-233.
- A robot trace maker: modeling the fossil evidence of early invertebrate behavior.. Artif Life, 3(4), 289-306.
- Spatial representation for navigation in animats. ADAPT BEHAV, 4(2), 85-123.
- Ethical principles of robotics. Connection Science, 29(2), 119-123. View this article in WRRO
- The World of Touch. Scholarpedia, 10(4), 32688-32688.
- Encyclopedia of touch. Scholarpedia, 7(8), 6597-6597.
- Vibrissal behavior and function. Encyclopedia:Touch, 6(10). View this article in WRRO
Book chapters
- Effects of summer robotics activities in libraries on children’s interest in robotics and STEM career In Balogh R, Obdržálek D & Fislake F (Ed.), Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (pp. 188-199). Springer Nature Switzerland View this article in WRRO
- Brains and computers, The Psychology of Artificial Intelligence (pp. 23-45). Routledge
- Learning in neural networks, The Psychology of Artificial Intelligence (pp. 68-92). Routledge
- Introduction, The Psychology of Artificial Intelligence (pp. 1-3). Routledge
- What is intelligence?, The Psychology of Artificial Intelligence (pp. 4-22). Routledge
- The building blocks of intelligence, The Psychology of Artificial Intelligence (pp. 46-67). Routledge
- Towards artificial general intelligence, The Psychology of Artificial Intelligence (pp. 93-112). Routledge
- Living with artificial intelligence, The Psychology of Artificial Intelligence (pp. 113-123). Routledge
- Simple synthetic memories of robotic touch In Meder F, Hunt A, Margheri L, Mura A & Mazzolai B (Ed.) (pp. 3-15). Berlin: Springer. View this article in WRRO
- Preface (pp. v-vii).
- Robot self In Ang MH, Khatib O & Siciliano B (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Robotics Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg View this article in WRRO
- Active touch sensing in mammals and robots, The Senses: A Comprehensive Reference (pp. 79-109). Elsevier View this article in WRRO
- Sapiens 5.0 : a manifesto for the development of human-AI collaboration, Futures Studies (pp. 83-110). Abu Dhabi, UAE: The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research. View this article in WRRO
- The synthetic psychology of the self In Ferreira MIA, Sequeira JS & Ventura R (Ed.), Cognitive Architectures (pp. 85-104). Springer Nature View this article in WRRO
- A sketch of the education landscape in biomimetic and biohybrid systems In Prescott TJ, Lepora N & Verschure PFMJ (Ed.), Living machines: A handbook of research in biomimetics and biohybrid systems (pp. 602-613). Oxford University Press View this article in WRRO
- Life In Prescott TJ, Lepora N & Verschure PFMJ (Ed.), Living machines: A handbook of research in biomimetics and biohybrid systems (pp. 51-54). Oxford University Press View this article in WRRO
- Biomimetic systems In Prescott TJ, Lepora N & Verschure PFMJ (Ed.), Living machines: A handbook of research in biomimetics and biohybrid systems (pp. 373-379). Oxford University Press View this article in WRRO
- A roadmap for Living Machines research In Prescott TJ, Lepora N & Verschure PFMJ (Ed.), Living machines: A handbook of research in biomimetics and biohybrid systems (pp. 26-48). Oxford University Press View this article in WRRO
- A Living Machines approach to the sciences of mind and brain In Prescott TJ, Lepora N & Verschure PFMJ (Ed.), Living machines: A handbook of research in biomimetics and biohybrid systems (pp. 15-25). Oxford University Press View this article in WRRO
- Mammals and mammal-like robots In Prescott TJ, Lepora N & Verschure PFMJ (Ed.), Living machines : A handbook of research in biomimetic and biohybrid systems (pp. 430-438). Oxford University Press View this article in WRRO
- Evo-devo In Prescott TJ, Lepora N & Verschure PFMJ (Ed.), Living machines : A handbook of research in biomimetic and biohybrid systems (pp. 82-98). Oxford University Press View this article in WRRO
- Preface (pp. V-VII).
- The World of Touch, Scholarpedia Scholarpedia Corporation View this article in WRRO
- Embodied Models and Neurorobotics In Arbib MA & Bonaiuto J (Ed.), From Neuron to Cognition via Computational Neuroscience (pp. 483-512). MIT Press View this article in WRRO
- Action-oriented Cognition and its implications : Contextualising the New Science of Mind In Engel AK, Friston K & Kragic D (Ed.), The Pragmatic Turn Toward Action-Oriented Views in Cognitive Science Mit Press View this article in WRRO
- Implications of action-oriented paradigm shifts in cognitive science In Engel AK, Friston K & Kragic D (Ed.), The Pragmatic Turn : Toward Action-Oriented Views in Cognitive Science Mit Press View this article in WRRO
- Action-Oriented Cognition and Its Implications: Contextualizing the New Science of Mind, The Pragmatic Turn (pp. 321-332). The MIT Press
- Implications of Action-Oriented Paradigm Shifts in Cognitive Science, The Pragmatic Turn (pp. 333-356). The MIT Press
- Vibrissal behavior and function In Prescott TJ, Ahissar E & Izhikevich E (Ed.), Scholarpedia of Touch (pp. 103-116). Atlantis Press View this article in WRRO
- Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems In Lepora NF, Mura A, Mangan M, Verschure PFMJ, Desmulliez M & Prescott TJ (Ed.) Springer International Publishing
- The robot vibrissal system: Understanding mammalian sensorimotor co-ordination through biomimetics In Krieger P & Groh A (Ed.), Sensorimotor Integration in the Whisker System (pp. 213-240). New York: Springer. View this article in WRRO
- Preface In Wilson S, Verschure P, Mura A & Prescott A (Ed.), 4th International Conference, Living Machines 2015, Barcelona, Spain, July 28 - 31, 2015, Proceedings (pp. v-vi). Springer International Publishing
- Preface In Duff A, Lepora N, Mura A, Prescott A & Verschure P (Ed.), Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems: Third International Conference, Living Machines 2014, Milan, Italy, July 30--August 1, 2014, Proceedings (pp. V-VIII). Springer International Publishing
- General introduction, Modelling Natural Action Selection (pp. 1-4). Cambridge University Press
- Introduction to Part II: computational neuroscience models, Modelling Natural Action Selection (pp. 169-175). Cambridge University Press
- Introduction to Part I: rational and optimal decision making, Modelling Natural Action Selection (pp. 7-11). Cambridge University Press
- The medial reticular formation: a brainstem substrate for simple action selection? In Seth AK, Prescott TJ & Bryson JJ (Ed.), Modelling natural action selection (pp. 300-329). Cambridge University Press View this article in WRRO
- Introduction to Part III: action selection in social contexts, Modelling Natural Action Selection (pp. 421-426). Cambridge University Press
- Mechanisms of choice in the primate brain: a quick look at positive feedback In Seth AK, Prescott TJ & Bryson JJ (Ed.), Modelling Natural Action Selection (pp. 390-420). Cambridge University Press View this article in WRRO
- Biomimetic robots as scientific models: a view from the whisker tip In Krichmar J & Wagatsuma H (Ed.), Neuromorphic and Brain-Based Robots (pp. 23-57). Cambridge University Press
- General introduction, Modelling Natural Action Selection (pp. 1-4).
- Selection and the basal ganglia: A role for dopamine In Graybiel AM, DeLong MR & Kitai ST (Ed.), The Basal Ganglia VI: v. 6 (pp. 257-266). Springer
- Basal Ganglia In Arbib MA (Ed.), The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks (pp. 147-150). The MIT Press
- Selection and the Basal Ganglia, Advances in Behavioral Biology (pp. 257-266). Springer US
- The Robot Basal Ganglia In Nicholson LFB & Faull RLM (Ed.), The Basal Ganglia VII: v. 7 (pp. 349-356). Springer
- Building Long-range Cognitive Maps using Local Landmarks, From Animals to Animats 2 (pp. 231-240). The MIT Press
- Adaptive local navigation In Blake A & Yuille A (Ed.), Active Vision The MIT Press
- PREFACE, Proceedings of the 1968 Laurentian Hormone Conference (pp. v-vi). Elsevier
- Living Machines: An introduction In Prescott TJ, Lepora N & Verschure PFMJ (Ed.), Living machines: A handbook of research in biomimetics and biohybrid systems (pp. 3-14). Oxford University Press View this article in WRRO
Conference proceedings
- Brain-inspired cognitive architectures for robotics. Proceedings of the 12 th International Conference of Control Dynamic Systems, and Robotics (CDSR 2025). London, UK, 13 July 2025 - 13 July 2025. View this article in WRRO
- Hey Miro! Multimodal interaction with an animal-like robot companion with conversational abilities. HRI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 20th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp 1779-1781). Melbourne, Australia, 4 March 2025 - 4 March 2025. View this article in WRRO
- Advancing affective intelligence in virtual agents using affect control theory. Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (pp 127-136). Cagliari, Italy, 24 March 2025 - 24 March 2025. View this article in WRRO
- A coupled-oscillator model of human attachment dynamics evaluated in a robot dyadic interaction. Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems: 13th International Conference, Living Machines 2024, Chicago, IL, USA, July 8–11, 2024, Proceedings, Vol. LNCS 14930 (pp 52-67). Chicago, IL, USA, 8 July 2024 - 8 July 2024. View this article in WRRO
- Motivational modulation of consummatory behaviour and learning in a robot model of spatial navigation. BIomimetic and Biohybrid Systems: 12th International Conference, Living Machines 2023, Genoa, Italy, July 10–13, 2023, Proceedings, Part II(LNAI 14158) (pp 240-253). Berlin, 10 July 2023 - 10 July 2023. View this article in WRRO
- Cognitive architecture as a service: scaffolded integration of heterogeneous models through event streams. Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems : 11th International Conference, Living Machines 2022, Virtual Event, July 19–22, 2022, Proceedings, Vol. LNAI 13548 (pp 345-353). Virtual Event, 19 July 2022 - 19 July 2022. View this article in WRRO
- Deep gaussian processes for angle and position discrimination in active touch sensing. From Animals to Animats 16: 16th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2022, Cergy-Pontoise, France, September 20–23, 2022, Proceedings, Vol. LNAI 13499 (pp 41-51). Cergy-Pontoise, France, 20 September 2022 - 20 September 2022. View this article in WRRO
- Tactile and proprioceptive online learning in robotic contour following. Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems: 23rd Annual Conference, TAROS 2022, Culham, UK, September 7–9, 2022, Proceedings, Vol. LNAI 13546 (pp 166-178). Culham, UK, 7 September 2022 - 7 September 2022. View this article in WRRO
- Designing socially assistive robots: a relational approach. ICCHP-AAATE 2022 Open Access Compendium "Assistive Technology, Accessibility and (e)Inclusion", Vol. Part II (pp 285-292). Lecco, Italy, 11 July 2022 - 11 July 2022. View this article in WRRO
- Robust and long-term monocular teach-and-repeat navigation using a single-experience map. Proceedings of 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (pp 2635-2642). Virtual conference (Prague, Czech Republic), 27 September 2021 - 27 September 2021. View this article in WRRO
- A framework for resolving motivational conflict via attractor dynamics. Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems : 9th International Conference, Living Machines 2020, Freiburg, Germany, July 28–30, 2020, Proceedings (pp 192-203). Freiburg, Germany, 28 July 2020 - 30 July 2020.
- Fast reverse replays of recent spatiotemporal trajectories in a robotic hippocampal model. Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems : 9th International Conference, Living Machines 2020, Freiburg, Germany, July 28–30, 2020, Proceedings (pp 390-401). Freiburg, Germany, 28 July 2020 - 30 July 2020.
- Teleport -- variable autonomy across platforms. HRI '20: Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp 70-70). Cambridge, UK (cancelled), 23 March 2020 - 23 March 2020. View this article in WRRO
- Obstacle avoidance using stereo vision and deep reinforcement learning in an animal-like robot. 2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO) (pp 71-76). Dali, China, 6 December 2019 - 6 December 2019. View this article in WRRO
- Improving the visual comfort of virtual reality telepresence for robotics. Social Robotics (pp 697-706). Madrid, Spain, 26 November 2019 - 29 November 2019.
- Exploring the potential of the animal-like robot MiRo as a therapeutic tool for children diagnosed with autism. Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems (pp 351-354). Nara, Japan, 9 July 2019 - 12 July 2019.
- Robots that imagine – can hippocampal replay be utilized for robotic mnemonics?. Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems (pp 277-286). Nara, Japan, 9 July 2019 - 12 July 2019.
- A window into the robot ‘mind’ : using a graphical real-time display to provide transparency of function in a brain-based robot. Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems (pp 316-320). Nara, Japan, 9 July 2019 - 12 July 2019.
- Measuring the effectiveness of biomimetic robots as therapeutic tools : translating the felt security scale from English to Japanese. Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems (pp 63-75). Nara, Japan, 9 July 2019 - 12 July 2019.
- Velocity constrained trajectory generation for a collinear Mecanum wheeled robot. Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (pp 4444-4450). Montreal, QC, Canada, 20 May 2019 - 20 May 2019. View this article in WRRO
- What comes to mind when people are asked questions about robots?. Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems: 19th Annual Conference, TAROS 2018, Bristol, UK July 25-27, 2018, Proceedings, Vol. 10965 (pp 453-454). Bristol, UK, 25 July 2018 - 25 July 2018. View this article in WRRO
- Attitudes towards social robots: A protocol for a systematic review. Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems: 19th Annual Conference, TAROS 2018, Bristol, UK July 25-27, 2018, Proceedings, Vol. 10965 (pp 484-485). Bristol, UK, 25 July 2018 - 25 July 2018. View this article in WRRO
- A personalized, animal-like robot companion to support people with dementia. Alzheimer's & Dementia, Vol. 14(7) (pp P210-P210). Chicago, IL, USA, 21 July 2018 - 21 July 2018. View this article in WRRO
- Living in a machine: Experiencing the world through a robotic avatar. Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Vol. 10928 (pp 64-72). Paris, France, 17 July 2018 - 17 July 2018. View this article in WRRO
- Design and control of a novel omnidirectional dynamically balancing platform for remote inspection of confined and cluttered environments. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Electronics for Sustainable Energy Systems (IESES) (pp 473-478). Hamilton, New Zealand, 31 January 2018 - 31 January 2018. View this article in WRRO
- Action recognition with unsynchronised multi-sensory data. 2017 Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob). Lisbon, Portugal, 18 September 2017 - 21 September 2017.
- MiRo: Social Interaction and Cognition in an Animal-like Companion Robot. Proceeding HRI '18 Companion of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp 41). Chicago, IL, USA, 5 March 2018 - 5 March 2018. View this article in WRRO
- Analyzing children's expectations from robotic companions in educational settings. Humanoid Robotics (Humanoids), 2017 IEEE-RAS 17th International Conference on (pp 749-755). Birmingham, UK, 15 November 2017 - 15 November 2017. View this article in WRRO
- Adaptive perception: learning from sensory predictions to extract object shape with a biomimetic fingertip. Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on (pp 6735-6740). Vancouver, BC, Canada, 24 September 2017 - 24 September 2017. View this article in WRRO
- Children's age influences their use of biological and mechanical questions towards a humanoid. Proceedings of the 18th Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) Conference, Vol. 10454 (pp 290-299). University of Surrey, Guildford View this article in WRRO
- You made him be alive: Children’s perceptions of animacy in a humanoid robot. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 10384 (pp 73-85). Stanford University, California View this article in WRRO
- MiRo: An animal-like companion robot with a biomimetic brain-based control system. Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Vol. Part F (pp 50-51), 6 March 2017 - 9 March 2017.
- Growing-up hand in hand with robots: Designing and evaluating child-robot interaction from a developmental perspective. HRI '17 Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp 429-430). Vienna, Austria, 6 March 2017 - 6 March 2017. View this article in WRRO
- An integrated probabilistic framework for robot perception, learning and memory. 2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO). Qingdao, China, 3 December 2016 - 3 December 2016. View this article in WRRO
- Expressive touch: Control of robot emotional expression by touch. 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2016 (pp 974-979)
- Bayesian perception of touch for control of robot emotion. Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2016 International Joint Conference on (pp 4927-4933). Alaska, USA, 14 May 2017 - 14 May 2017. View this article in WRRO
- Towards a synthetic tutor assistant: The EASEL project and its architecture. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 9793 (pp 353-364). Edinburgh, UK, 19 July 2016 - 19 July 2016. View this article in WRRO
- MIRO: A robot “Mammal” with a biomimetic brain-based control system. Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Vol. 9793 (pp 179-191). Edinburgh, UK View this article in WRRO
- Designing robot personalities for human-robot symbiotic interaction in an educational context. Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Vol. 9793 (pp 413-417). Edinburgh, UK View this article in WRRO
- iCub visual memory inspector: Visualising the iCub’s thoughts. Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Vol. 9793 (pp 48-57). Edinburgh, UK View this article in WRRO
- The EASEL project: Towards educational human-robot symbiotic interaction. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 9793 (pp 297-306). Edinburgh, UK, 19 July 2016 - 19 July 2016. View this article in WRRO
- Head-mounted Sensory Augmentation Device: Comparing Haptic and Audio Modality. Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Vol. 9793 (pp 107-118). Edinburgh, UK View this article in WRRO
- A bioinspired approach to vision. Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, Vol. 9716 (pp 40-52). Sheffield, UK, 26 June 2016 - 26 June 2016. View this article in WRRO
- Congratulations, It’s a Boy! Bench-Marking Children’s Perceptions of the Robokind Zeno-R25. Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, Vol. 9716 (pp 33-39). Sheffield, UK, 28 June 2016 - 28 June 2016. View this article in WRRO
- AISB 2016 symposium on the principles of robotics. AISB Annual Convention 2016, AISB 2016 View this article in WRRO
- MIRO: A Versatile Biomimetic Edutainment Robot. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology View this article in WRRO
- Active haptic shape recognition by intrinsic motivation with a robot hand. 2015 IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC) (pp 299-304)
- Telepresence: Immersion with the iCub Humanoid Robot and the Oculus Rift. Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Vol. 9222(9222) (pp 461-464). Barcelona, Spain View this article in WRRO
- Tactile Language for a Head-Mounted Sensory Augmentation Device. BIOMIMETIC AND BIOHYBRID SYSTEMS, LIVING MACHINES 2015(9222) (pp 359-365) View this article in WRRO
- Children's Age Influences Their Perceptions of a Humanoid Robot as Being Like a Person or Machine. Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Vol. 9222 (pp 348-353). Barcelona, Spain View this article in WRRO
- A Top-Down Approach for a Synthetic Autobiographical Memory System. Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Vol. 9222 (pp 280-292). Barcelona, Spain View this article in WRRO
- Saying It with Light: A Pilot Study of Affective Communication Using the MIRO Robot. BIOMIMETIC AND BIOHYBRID SYSTEMS, LIVING MACHINES 2015, Vol. 9222 (pp 243-255). Barcelona, Spain View this article in WRRO
- Extending a Hippocampal Model for Navigation Around a Maze Generated from Real-World Data. Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Vol. 9222 (pp 441-452). Barcelona, Spain View this article in WRRO
- Active Control for Object Perception and Exploration with a Robotic Hand. Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Vol. 9222 (pp 415-428). Barcelona, Spain View this article in WRRO
- Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems
- Towards a child-robot symbiotic co-development: A theoretical approach. Proceedings of the AISB 2015 Symposium on AI and Games. Canterbury, 20 April 2015 - 20 April 2015. View this article in WRRO
- Presence of life-like robot expressions influences children's enjoyment of human-robot interactions in the field. Proceedings of the AISB Convention 2015. Canterbury, UK View this article in WRRO
- Centralizing Bias and the Vibrotactile Funneling Illusion on the Forehead. HAPTICS: NEUROSCIENCE, DEVICES, MODELING, AND APPLICATIONS, PT II, Vol. 8619(8619) (pp 55-62). Versailles View this article in WRRO
- Discrimination of social tactile gestures using biomimetic skin. Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems(8069) (pp 46-48). Oxford, UK, 28 August 2013 - 28 August 2013. View this article in WRRO
- A future of living machines? International trends and prospects in biomimetic and biohybrid systems. Proceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 9055
- Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems
- Machines learning - Towards a new synthetic autobiographical memory. Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Vol. 8608 (pp 84-96). Milan, Italy View this article in WRRO
- Optimising robot personalities for symbiotic interaction. Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Vol. 8608 (pp 392-395). Milan, Italy View this article in WRRO
- Active Bayesian perception for angle and position discrimination with a biomimetic fingertip. IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (pp 5968-5973)
- Attachment to assistive technology: A new conceptualisation. Assistive Technology Research Series, Vol. 33 (pp 823-828)
- Active Bayesian perception and reinforcement learning. IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (pp 4735-4740)
- Simultaneous localisation and mapping on a multi-degree of freedom biomimetic whiskered robot. Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (pp 586-592)
- Active touch for robust perception under position uncertainty. Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (pp 3020-3025)
- Cerebellum-based adaptation for fine haptic control over the space of uncertain surfaces. 2013 World Haptics Conference Whc 2013 (pp 353-358)
- Active contour following to explore object shape with robot touch. 2013 World Haptics Conference Whc 2013 (pp 341-346)
- The AI singularity and runaway human intelligence. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, Vol. 8064 LNAI (pp 438-440)
- Sensory augmentation with distal touch: The tactile helmet project. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, Vol. 8064 LNAI (pp 24-35)
- A SOLID case for active bayesian perception in robot touch. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, Vol. 8064 LNAI (pp 154-166)
- Angle and position perception for exploration with active touch. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, Vol. 8064 LNAI (pp 405-408)
- Perception of simple stimuli using sparse data from a tactile whisker array. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, Vol. 8064 LNAI (pp 179-190)
- Evo-devo design for living machines. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, Vol. 8064 LNAI (pp 454-456)
- Towards a roadmap for living machines. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, Vol. 8064 LNAI (pp 396-398)
- Active Bayesian perception for simultaneous object localization and identification. Robotics: Science and Systems, Vol. IX. Berlin, Germany, 24 June 2013 - 24 June 2013. View this article in WRRO
- Plenary talks: From whiskers to fingertips — A biomimetic approach to active touch sensing. 2013 World Haptics Conference (WHC) (pp 1-4), 14 April 2013 - 17 April 2013.
- Whiskered texture classification with uncertain contact pose geometry. IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (pp 7-13)
- Embodied hyperacuity from Bayesian perception: Shape and position discrimination with an iCub fingertip sensor. IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (pp 4638-4643)
- Towards contour following exploration based on tactile sensing with the iCub fingertip. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, Vol. 7429 LNAI (pp 459-460)
- Predictive prey pursuit in a whiskered robot. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, Vol. 7429 LNAI (pp 343-353)
- Bioinspired control of electro-active polymers for next generation soft robots. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, Vol. 7429 LNAI (pp 424-425)
- The emergence of action sequences from spatial attention: Insight from rodent-like robots. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, Vol. 7375 LNAI (pp 168-179)
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics): Preface. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, Vol. 7375 LNAI (pp V-VIII)
- Toward a fusion model of feature and spatial tactile memory in the crayfish cherax destructor. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, Vol. 7375 LNAI (pp 352-354)
- The State-of-the-Art in Biomimetics.. Living Machines, Vol. 7375 (pp 367-368)
- Towards a Framework for Tactile Perception in Social Robotics.. Living Machines, Vol. 7375 (pp 335-336)
- Texture Classification through Tactile Sensing.. Living Machines, Vol. 7375 (pp 377-379)
- Tactile SLAM with a biomimetic whiskered robot. Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (pp 4925-4930)
- Brain-inspired Bayesian perception for biomimetic robot touch.. ICRA (pp 5111-5116)
- Robot companions for citizens. Procedia Computer Science, Vol. 7 (pp 47-51)
- Scaling up a Boltzmann machine model of hippocampus with visual features for mobile robots. 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics Robio 2011 (pp 835-840)
- Sensing with artificial tactile sensors: An investigation of spatio-temporal inference. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, Vol. 6856 LNAI (pp 253-264)
- A general classifier of whisker data using stationary naive bayes: Application to BIOTACT robots. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, Vol. 6856 LNAI (pp 13-23)
- Mapping with sparse local sensors and strong hierarchical priors. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, Vol. 6856 LNAI (pp 183-194)
- Crunchbot: A mobile whiskered robot platform. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, Vol. 6856 LNAI (pp 102-113)
- Each to their own beat: periodicity in temporal inference. BMC Neuroscience, Vol. 12(S1)
- Naive Bayes novelty detection for a moving robot with whiskers. 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics Robio 2010 (pp 131-136)
- Whisker-object contact speed affects radial distance estimation. 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics Robio 2010 (pp 720-725)
- Tactile discrimination using template classifiers: Towards a model of feature extraction in mammalian vibrissal systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, Vol. 6226 LNAI (pp 178-187)
- SCRATCHbot: Active tactile sensing in a whiskered mobile robot. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, Vol. 6226 LNAI (pp 93-103)
- Learning in a unitary coherent hippocampus. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, Vol. 6352 LNCS(PART 1) (pp 388-394)
- Hippocampus as unitary coherent particle filter. 2010 INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON NEURAL NETWORKS IJCNN 2010
- Naive Bayes texture classification applied to whisker data from a moving robot. 2010 INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON NEURAL NETWORKS IJCNN 2010
- Hippocampus, Amygdala and Basal Ganglia Based Navigation Control. ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS - ICANN 2009, PT I, Vol. 5768 (pp 267-276)
- Whiskerbot: A haptic sensor array for mobile robots. Proceedings of Aisb 06 Adaptation in Artificial and Biological Systems, Vol. 2 (pp 93-96)
- A biologically inspired FPGA based implementation of a tactile sensory system for object recognition and texture discrimination. 2006 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FIELD PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC AND APPLICATIONS, PROCEEDINGS (pp 897-900)
- Distributed action selection by a brainstem neural substrate: An embodied evaluation. FROM ANIMALS TO ANIMATS 9, PROCEEDINGS, Vol. 4095 (pp 199-210)
- A model of sensorimotor coordination in the rat whisker system. FROM ANIMALS TO ANIMATS 9, PROCEEDINGS, Vol. 4095 (pp 77-88)
- A Biomimetic Haptic Sensor. International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, Vol. 2(4) (pp 335-343)
- The interaction of recurrent axon collateral networks in the basal ganglia. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, Vol. 2714 (pp 797-804)
- Reliability and validity of a paced computer Stroop task for fMRI. ARCHIVES OF CLINICAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY, Vol. 18(7) (pp 755-755)
- The robot basal ganglia: Action selection by an embedded model of the basal ganglia. BASAL GANGLIA VII, Vol. 52 (pp 349-358)
- Comparing a Brain-inspired Robot Action Selection Mechanism with Winner-takes-all (pp 75-84)
- An embodied model of action selection mechanisms in the vertebrate brain. FROM ANIMALS TO ANIMATS 6 (pp 157-166)
- The robot basal ganglia: Control of robot action selection by an embodied model of the mammalian basal ganglia. EUR J NEUROSCI, Vol. 12 (pp 134-134)
- Feature distributions and experimental evaluation in a connectionist model of semantic memory. CONNECTIONIST MODELS IN COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE (pp 159-169)
- Almost a decade of Cognitive Science at Sheffield. Proceedings of the AISB'99 Workshop on Issues in Teaching Cognitive Science to Undergraduates. Edinburgh College of Art & Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh., 8 April 1999 - 8 April 1999. View this article in WRRO
- Experimental and connectionist perspectives on semantic memory development. PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTIETH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY (pp 478-483)
- The basal ganglia viewed as an action selection device. ICANN 98: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (pp 1033-1038). Skövde, Sweden, 2 September 1998 - 2 September 1998. View this article in WRRO
- The early evolution of spatial behaviour: robot models of trace fossils. Technical Report Series, Department of Computer Science, Manchester University, Vol. Report. Manchester View this article in WRRO
- Layered control architectures in natural and artificial systems. Workshop on Learning in Robots and Animals. Brighton, 31 March 1996 - 31 March 1996. View this article in WRRO
- Robot spatial learning: Insights from animal and human behaviour. IEE Colloquium (Digest)(26)
- SPATIAL-LEARNING AND REPRESENTATION IN ANIMATS. FROM ANIMALS TO ANIMATS 3 (pp 164-173)
- BUILDING LONG-RANGE COGNITIVE MAPS USING LOCAL LANDMARKS. FROM ANIMALS TO ANIMATS 2 (pp 233-242)
- Obstacle Avoidance through Reinforcement Learning.. NIPS (pp 523-530)
- Analysing the limitations of deep learning for developmental robotics. Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems(10384 ) (pp 86-94). Stanford, CA, USA View this article in WRRO
- Towards a Wearable Interface for Immersive Telepresence in Robotics. Interactivity, Game Creation, Design, Learning, and Innovation, Vol. 196(LNICST, volume 196) (pp 65-73). Esbjerg, Denmark, 2 May 2016 - 2 May 2016. View this article in WRRO
- Sunny uplands or slippery slopes? The risks and benefits of using robots in care. Proceedings of UKRE Workshop on Robot Ethics. Sheffield, UK, 25 March 2013 - 25 March 2013. View this article in WRRO
- Robot Companions For Citizens: Roadmapping The Potential For Future Robots In Empowering Older People. BRAID (Bridging Research in Ageing and ICT Development) Final Conference. Prague , 29 May 2012 - 29 May 2012. View this article in WRRO
- BRAHMS: Novel middleware for integrated systems computation. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, Vol. 2
Reports
- Preparing the workforce for 2030 : skills and education for robotics & autonomous systems View this article in WRRO
- Robotics in social care : a connected care ecosystem for independent living View this article in WRRO
Theses
- Explorations in Reinforcement and Model-based Learning.
- Attitudes towards social robots and how they are affected by direct and indirect contact with a humanoid social robot.
Other
- Erratum: A new dissimilarity measure for finding semantic structure in category fluency data with implications for understanding memory organization in schizophrenia (Neuropsychology (2006) 20, 6 (685-699)). Neuropsychology, 21(2), 273.
- THOUGHT RULES. NEW SCI, 135(1830), 53-53.
Preprints
- How does Your RL Agent Explore? An Optimal Transport Analysis of Occupancy Measure Trajectories, arXiv.
- Simulated Dopamine Modulation of a Neurorobotic Model of the Basal Ganglia, MDPI AG.
- Exploring the Influence of Perceived Extroversion in Embodied Virtual Agents on Trust and Likability, Research Square Platform LLC.
- A Robotic Model of Hippocampal Reverse Replay for Reinforcement Learning, arXiv.
- DAC-h3: A Proactive Robot Cognitive Architecture to Acquire and Express Knowledge About the World and the Self, arXiv.
- Basal Ganglia Control of Reflexive Saccades: A Computational Model Integrating Physiology Anatomy and Behaviour, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
- Automatic recognition of child speech for robotic applications in noisy environments, arXiv.
- Impact of robot responsiveness and adult involvement on children's social behaviours in human-robot interaction, arXiv.
- The psychology of artificial intelligence. Routledge. View this article in WRRO
- Grants
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- Human Brain Project: EU Future Emerging Technologies Flagship. T.J. Prescott (Sheffield PI): The Human Brain Project (2016-2023). Project value to Sheffield €774,000 (over four years).
- EPSRC. T.J.Prescott (PI): SERAS: Skills and Education in Robotics and Autonomous Systems (March 2020 - Feb 2021). £35,500
- Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). T. J. Prescott (PI): Cyberselves in Immersive Technologies (2014-2015). Project value £50,000.
- EU Framework 7 Cognitive and Robotics Systems. T. J. Prescott (PI): What You Say Is What You Did (WYSIWYD) (2014 - 2017). Total project value €3,500,000 (€575,000 to Sheffield).
- EU Framework 7 Cognitive and Robotics Systems. T.J. Prescott (PI): Expressive Agents for Symbiotic Education and Learning (EASEL) (Nov 2013 - 2016). Total project value €2,910,000 (€595,000 to Sheffield).
- UK Technology Strategy Board. T.J. Prescott (PI): IntelliTable (Sept 2013 -14). Total project value £100,000 (£27,000 to Sheffield).
- EPSRC Capital for Great Technologies. T.J. Prescott (PI): Human-Machine Cooperation In Robotics And Autonomous (July 2013 -14). £1,000,000.
- European Union Framework 7 Programme. T.J. Prescott (PI for Sheffield component): Convergent Science Network for Biomimetics and Neurotechnology (Mar 2013-2016). Total project value €950,000 (€172,711 to Sheffield).
- Weizmann – UK Joint Research Programme. T.J. Prescott (PI): Development of motor-sensory strategies for vibrissal active touch (Oct 2012-2014). Total project value $100,000 ($50,000 to Sheffield).
- EPSRC. T.J. Prescott (Co-Investigator): Bio-inspired Control of Electro-Active Polymers for Next Generation Soft Robots (Jan 2012-2015). Total project value £359,094 (~£170,000 to Sheffield).
- EPSRC/UoS. T.J. Prescott (PI): A wearable active sensing device using tactile displays (Sept 2011-2012). £49,998.
- European Union Framework 7 Programme. T.J. Prescott (PI for Sheffield component): CA-RoboCom: Coordination Action for the design and description of the FET Flagship candidate Robot Companions for Citizens (May 2011-2012). Total project value €1,500,000 (€90,000 to Sheffield).
- European Union Framework 7 Programme. T.J. Prescott (PI for Sheffield component): Experimental Functional Android Assistant (EFAA) (Jan 2011-2014). Total project value €2,858,000 (€517,000 to Sheffield).
- UoS Proof of Concept. T.J. Prescott (PI): Virtual Whiskers for Navigation in Hazardous Environments (Nov 2010-May 2011). £10,000.
- European Union Framework 7 Programme. T.J. Prescott (PI for Sheffield component): Convergent Science Network for Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems (Jan 2009-2012). Total project value €520,000 (€108,000) to Sheffield).
- European Union Framework 7 ICT Project 215910. T. J. Prescott (Co-ordinator and PI): BIOmimetic Technology for vibrissal ACtive Touch (BIOTACT) (2008-). (Jan 2008-Dec 2011). Total project value €7.8M (~€1.4M European Union contribution to Sheffield).
- European Union Framework 6 Cognitive Systems Project ST-027819-IP. T.J. Prescott (PI): Integration Cognition, Emotion, and Action (ICEA). (Jan 2006–Dec 2009). €8.08M (~€0.9M to Sheffield).
- EPRSC EP/C516303/1. Collaboration between 5 UK Universities. K. Gurney (PI) and TJ. Prescott: REVERB: Reverse Engineering the VERtebrate Brain (April 2005-March 2010). £1.8M (~£0.7M to Sheffield).
- EPRSC GR/S19639/01. Collaboration with Bristol Robotics Laborator. TJ. Prescott (PI): WhiskerBot: A Robot Whisker System Modelled on the Rat Mystacial Vibrissae (September 2003-August 2006). £430k (~£150k to Sheffield).
- EPRSC GR/R95722/01 T. J. Prescott (PI), K. Gurney, P. Redgrave: Robot control using a model of central structures in the vertebrate brain (Sept 2002–August 2005). £161k.
- Professional activities and memberships
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Activities and Distinctions
- Finalist in the 2022 Ana Avatar competition for telepresence robotics
- University of Sheffield Principal Investigator for the European Union Horizon 2020 Human Brain Project, 2016–
- Sage Centre for the Study of Mind Distinguished Fellow (2018)
- Fellow of the British Psychological Society (FBPsS), 2011–
- Co-founder of the University of Sheffield spin-out company Consequential Robotics, 2016–
- Editor of Connection Science, 2014-2020
- Co-founder of the "Living Machines" International Conference Series, 2012-
- Co-organiser of the European Union FP7 Co-ordination Action Convergent Science Network for Biomimetics and Neurotechlog
- Co-founder and Director of the Sheffield Robotics, 2011-2022
- Partner in the "Robot Companions for Citizens" FET Flagship pilot project and leader of a working group on Societal Impacts and Ethical Issues in Robotics, 2011-12
- Cofounder and co-organiser of the annual Barcelona Summer School on Cognitiion, Brain & Technology, 2008-
- Co-ordinator of the EU FP7 BIOTACT project, 2008-12
- Visiting Research Fellow at Bristol Robotics Laboratory, 2003-
- Founder and co-director of the Adaptive Behaviour Research Group, 1996-
- My research has been covered by the BBC One Show, Radio 4 Today Programme, Material World & Costing the Earth, Discovery Channel, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Observer, The Economist, Science Magazine, New Scientist, Focus Magazine and American Scientist.
Earlier Plenary and Invited Talks
- Assistive and companion robot technologies. Technology and Dementia (AAIC 17 Satellite Meeting), London, 15th July 2018.
- Through a glass, darkly; then face to robot face, Public Symposium in Honour of the Artist Jordan Wolfson at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, February 18th 2018.
- Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences, 6th October 2016 (Invited talk)
- Battle of Ideas, London Barbican Centre, 22nd October 2016 (Debate)
- IEEE ICDL-EPIROB 2016, 22nd September 2016 (Plenary talk)
- Tencent "Way to Evolve" Conference, November 2015 (Invited talk, live streamed)
- Institute of Contemporary Art "Fear of Missing Out", 30th May 2015 (invited talk)
- SPIE Biomimetics, San Diego, USA, March 2014 (Opening talk)
- 'Socially-responsible research in Cognitive Systems: A no-win or a win-win'. EU Cognition III Annual Meeting, Brighton, UK, December 2013 (Plenary talk)
- IEEE World Haptics, Daejeon, South Korea, April 2013 (Opening talk)
- European Conference for Complex Systems, Warwick, 2009 (Opening talk)
- Recent Articles
Click here for full and free access to our recent review article, courtesy of AAAS:
Prescott TJ & Wilson SP (2023) Understanding brain functional architecture through robotics. Science Robotics, 8(78)