Professor Tony Prescott

About

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

Education

• MA Psychology (Edinburgh)
• MSc Applied Artificial Intelligence (Aberdeen)
• PhD Machine Learning (Sheffield)
• CPsychol FBPsS.

Selected publications

• Prescott T (2024) The psychology of artificial intelligence. Routledge. View this article in WRRO
• (2018) Living machines. Oxford University Press.
• Lepora NF, Mura A, Verschure PFMJ & Prescott TJ (2013) Living Machines 2012: the First International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems..
• Engel AK, Friston KJ & Kragic D (Eds.) (2016) The Pragmatic Turn. The MIT Press.
• Prescott TJ, Ahissar E & Izhikevich E (Eds.) (2015) Encyclopedia: Touch. Scholarpedia Corporation. View this article in WRRO
• (Ed.) (2014) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics): Preface..
• Prescott TJ, Lepora NF, Mura A & Verschure PFMJ (Eds.) (2012) Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems - First International Conference, Living Machines 2012, Barcelona, Spain, July 9-12, 2012. Proceedings. Springer.
• Seth A, Prescott T & Bryson J (Eds.) (2011) Modelling Natural Action Selection. Cambridge Univ Pr.
• Groß R, Alboul L, Melhuish C, Witkowski M, Prescott TJ & Penders J (Eds.) (2011) Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems - 12th Annual Conference, TAROS 2011, Sheffield, UK, August 31 - September 2, 2011. Proceedings. Springer.
• Groß R, Alboul L, Melhuish C, Witkowski M, Prescott T & Penders J (Eds.) (2011) Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems. Springer.