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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
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Congratulation to Dr Michael Mangan

Mike has been announced as one of 75 UKRI Future Leaders Fellows.

The fellowship will be hosted at Opteran Technologies, "Brains Beats Brawn"

| UKRI
The robot medic administering an injection to a model patient

MediTel team has been shortlisted for another award!

The Engineer UK's Collaborate To Innovate Awards, in the Healthcare & Medical category

| The Engineer
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PhD's available within Sheffield Biomedical Robotics Lab

Fully-funded PhD scholarship in the project 'Capsule Robot Pharmacy: Your Future Personal Gastrointestinal Medication Dispensary'

PhD positions in Biomedical and Soft Robots, and in Miniature Origami Robots

| Sheffield Biomedical Robotics Lab
SR - Pipebots

Updated Pipebots video

Featuring Pipebots robots Joey and Skatebot

| YouTube
Competition Announce

Eccentric Entrepreneurship: Tutorial Series & Pitch Competition

Calling All Innovators with the Next Big Idea! Unlock Startup Secrets in the Tutorial Series & Gear Up for an Exciting Pitch Competition.

Series kickoff on the 15th November 2023

| IEEE Global Entrepreneurship Week