Tony Prescott

Sheffield

Articles

Understanding the sense of self through robotics

Oct 30, 2024 | science.org | Tony Prescott |Ninad Jadhav |Ken Goldberg |Kai Vogeley

AbstractRobotics can play a useful role in the scientific understanding of the sense of self, both through the construction of embodied models of the self and through the use of robots as experimental probes to explore the human self. In both cases, the embodiment of the robot allows us to devise and test hypotheses about the nature of the self, with regard to its development, its manifestation in behavior, and the diversity of selves in humans, animals, and, potentially, machines.
Augmented dexterity: How robots can enhance human surgical skills

Oct 30, 2024 | science.org | Tony Prescott |Ninad Jadhav |Ken Goldberg |Gary Guthart

AbstractAdvances in AI and robotics have the potential to enhance the dexterity of human surgeons. Get full access to this articleView all available purchase options and get full access to this article. REFERENCES AND NOTES1Intuitive Surgical, “Environmental, social, and governance report 2023” (Intuitive Surgical, 2023); https://isrg.intuitive.com/static-files/8f873230-8cd5-419e-87e0-52bec95bcdab. 2M. Hwang, J. Ichnowski, B. Thananjeyan, D. Seita, S. Paradis, D. Fer, T. Low, K.
Advancing scientific discovery with the aid of robotics

Oct 30, 2024 | science.org | Tony Prescott |Ninad Jadhav |Ken Goldberg |Amos Matsiko

AbstractRobots can be powerful tools to advance basic scientific discovery. SIGN UP FOR THE SCIENCEADVISER NEWSLETTER The latest news, commentary, and research, free to your inbox daily Over the years, Science Robotics has featured studies that have largely focused on harnessing scientific and engineering principles to develop unique robotic systems.
Reinforcement learning-based framework for whale rendezvous via autonomous sensing robots

Oct 30, 2024 | science.org | Tony Prescott |Ninad Jadhav |Ken Goldberg |Sushmita Bhattacharya

Editor’s summaryIn recent years, several sperm whales have been tagged to localize and track their positions while studying their behavior in the wild. Whale sightings at the surface, known as rendezvous, are critical for connecting behavioral data with tagged whales but can easily be missed. To automate whale rendezvous, Jadhav et al.
AI-driven aerial robots advance whale research

Oct 30, 2024 | science.org | Tony Prescott |Ninad Jadhav |Ken Goldberg |Haluk KARAASLAN-Muhammet BAYRAM

AbstractAerial robots assisted with artificial intelligence improve real-time wildlife monitoring of sperm whales. Get full access to this articleView all available purchase options and get full access to this article. REFERENCES1UNESCO, “United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030)” (UNESCO, 2024); www.unesco.org/en/decades/ocean-decade. 2V. Ryabinin, J. Barbière, P. Haugan, G. Kullenberg, N. Smith, C. McLean, A. Troisi, A. Fischer, S. Aricò, T. Aarup, P.
Simulated Dopamine Modulation of a Neurorobotic Model of the Basal Ganglia

Feb 25, 2024 | mdpi.com | Tony Prescott |Kevin R. Gurney |Mark Humphries |Peter Redgrave

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[2402.09113] Measuring Exploration in Reinforcement Learning via Optimal Transport in Policy Space

Feb 14, 2024 | arxiv.org | Debabrota Basu |Tony Prescott |Aditya Gilra
Simulated Dopamine Modulation of a Neurorobotic Model of the Basal Ganglia

Jan 8, 2024 | preprints.org | Tony Prescott |Fernando Gonzalez |Fernando González |Kevin R. Gurney |Mark Humphries

Preprint Article Version 1 This version is not peer-reviewed Version 1 : Received: 7 January 2024 / Approved: 8 January 2024 / Online: 8 January 2024 (06:46:30 CET) Prescott, T.J.; Montes Gonzalez, F.; Gurney, K.; Humphries, M.D.; Redgrave, P. Simulated Dopamine Modulation of a Neurorobotic Model of the Basal Ganglia. Preprints 2024, 2024010556. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.0556.v1 Prescott, T.J.; Montes Gonzalez, F.; Gurney, K.; Humphries, M.D.; Redgrave, P.
Taking inspiration from nature is a no-brainer

May 31, 2023 | science.org | Pavan Ramdya |Tony Prescott |Amos Matsiko

Several machines have been designed by taking inspiration from nature, particularly from animals, which have evolved to have unique behaviors and characteristics required to survive in their respective environments. Even plants, which are often overlooked, have been a source of inspiration for the development of intelligent systems (1).
Understanding brain functional architecture through robotics

May 31, 2023 | science.org | Lucia Seminara |Robin Murphy |Fangwen Yu |Tony Prescott

AbstractRobotics is increasingly seen as a useful test bed for computational models of the brain functional architecture underlying animal behavior. We provide an overview of past and current work, focusing on probabilistic and dynamical models, including approaches premised on the free energy principle, situating this endeavor in relation to evidence that the brain constitutes a layered control system.