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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
Summer Showcase

Sheffield Robotics Summer Showcase Case

​Thank you to all staff and students for attending our Sheffield Robotics Summer Showcase on Friday 23rd June 2023.
We were thrilled to have you join us and we hope that you found the event valuable and informative.

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Artificial intelligence won’t likely reach human-like levels without this one key component

Research by Prof Tony Prescott and Dr Stuart Wilson, Dept of Computer Science and Sheffield Robotics. The research suggests that despite AI having the ability to emulate how humans learn the programs are unlikely to fully think like humans.

| Techno Verse Pro
Universal Robots UR5 robot equipped with a Robotiq 2-finger gripper, wrist camera, force torque sensor, and Alumotion YOUring
A Universal Robots UR5 robot equipped with a Robotiq 2-finger gripper, wrist camera, force torque sensor, and Alumotion YOUring, in the ESIM facility

Universal Robots opens first UK cobotics centre in Sheffield

Universal Robotics has opened its first UK office in Sheffield.

Dr James Law, Sheffield Robotics and Dept. of Computer Science talks about how encouraging the move of a global robotics company to Sheffield is.

| Robotics & Innovation
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AI could threaten some jobs, but it is more likely to become our personal assistant

Dr Jonathan Aitken from the Department of Automatic Control & Systems Engineering discusses what jobs are likely to be most affected by AI, and why jobs being replaced by AI is unlikely to be as big an issue as people fear.

| The Conversation
We will be at Booth H12

Sheffield Robotics will be attending ICRA 2023!

Sheffield: a leading hub of robotics research