Research Records #31 Professor Marie Kinsey Interviews Professor Tony Prescott
The podcast exploring Sheffield academic's professional and personal journeys alongside their own soundtrack to academic adventure.
Our latest guest is an internationally recognised expert in a particularly exciting, compelling and hugely topical areas of research; the relationship between human beings and the technology we create. Tony Prescott is Professor of Cognitive Robotics at the University of Sheffield and the co-founder and former director of Sheffield Robotics, a cross disciplinary research group across both of the city’s universities.
Tony’s research brings together robotics and artificial intelligence with psychology, brain theory and philosophy. He aims to answer questions about the human condition by creating synthetic entities which have animal, or human-like capacities, such as emotion, perception, memory and a sense of self. For many years he has written and spoken about the impact of robotic, AI, and virtual reality technologies on human society and culture.
Tracklist
Playing tracks by Joni Mitchell, Tony Prescott, The Pixies, John Martyn, Vangelis and more.