Tony Prescott, Author at Singularity Hub

Tony Prescott is a Professor of cognitive neuroscience at the University of Sheffield and Director of Sheffield Robotics, a cross-disciplinary collaborative enterprise involving both universities in Sheffield. His primary research goal is to understand natural intelligence in animals and humans, and to use this understanding to create life-like intelligent robots.

From This Author

Will Robots Make Good Friends? Scientists Are Already Starting to Find Out

Tony Prescott - Feb 25, 2021

In the 2012 film Robot and Frank, the protagonist, a retired cat burglar named Frank, is suffering the early symptoms of dementia. Concerned and guilty, his son buys him a “home robot” that can...

Ghost in the Shell Thrills, But Ducks the Philosophical Questions Posed by a Cyborg Future

Tony Prescott - Apr 04, 2017

How closely will we live with the technology we use in the future? How will it change us? And how close is “close”? Ghost in the Shell imagines a futuristic, hi-tech but grimy and...