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Living Machines Conference 2025 Poster

Living Machines 2025

HIGHLIGHTING THE MOST EXCITING RESEARCH ON BIOMIMETICS AND BIOHYBRID SYSTEMS UNITED BY THE THEME OF “LIVING MACHINES”
Tony Prescott headshot

The Psychology of Artificial Intelligence

At an in-person event, Professor Tony Prescott launched his new book ‘The Psychology of Artificial Intelligence’.

Centre for Machine Intelligence
Robot Talk Pod

Podcast: Robot Talk 

Gianmarco Pisanelli, Technical Fellow in Novel Robotics at the AMRC talks about the safe and intuitive use of robots in manufacturing.

Robot Talk
Diamond Building

Living Machines Conference 2025

The University of Sheffield will be hosting the 2025 Living Machines Conference. This conference highlights the most exciting research in the fields of biomimetics and biohybrid systems under the theme of Living Machines.

Living Machines website
Photo of Gopesh Yadav Dosieah receiving award for Best Paper from conference chairs Dr Marco Dorigo and Professor Heiko Hamann
Gopesh Yadav Dosieah receiving award from ANTS 2022 conference chairs Dr Marco Dorigo and Professor Heiko Hamann

Graduate awarded best research paper in swarm intelligence

Congratulations to MEng Mechatronic and Robotic Engineering graduate Gopesh Yadav Dosieah on his winning paper.
SR - Pipebots

Smart ‘Joey’ bots could soon swarm underground to clean and inspect our pipes

First mini-robot, called Joey, that can find its own way independently through networks of narrow pipes underground, to inspect any damage or leaks.

| Published by Frontiers Science News
Cyberselves collage

Sheffield Robotics spin-out Company Cyberselves

Department of Computer Science and Sheffield Robotics spin-out Cyberselves pushes technology to exciting new spaces in global competition
Two military medics providing medical treatment to a soldier injured during combat

New robots set to triage UK military personnel in combat

Robots will soon be able to provide medical care to military personnel during combat, as part of new research at the University of Sheffield.
Tony Prescott shaking hands with the iCub robot

Do robots have a role in care?

Future role of robots in care settings