Living machines

Author Biography

Tony J. Prescott, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Sheffield Robotics, The University of Sheffield, UK,Nathan Lepora, Senior Lecturer in Engineering Mathematics, Department of Engineering Mathematics and Bristol Robotics Laboratory, University of Bristol, UK,Paul F.M.J Verschure, Research Professor and Director, Catalan Institute for Bioengineering, Spain

Tony Prescott is Professor of Cognitive Robotics at the University of Sheffield, UK, and Director of Sheffield Robotics, a cross-disciplinary research institute with over one hundred and fifty researchers (www.sheffieldrobotics.ac.uk). His background mixes psychology, neuroethology, and brain theory with robotics and artificial intelligence, and his research aims at answering questions about human nature by creating synthetic entities with capacities such as perception, memory, emotion, and sense of self. He is the co-creator of the mammal-like robots Scratchbot and Shrewbot, and is the co-founder of the UK company Consequential Robotics (www.consequentialrobotics.com ) that is developing assistive and companion robots including the animal-like robot 'pet' MiRo. He co-founded the International Living Machines conference series and also writes and speaks on societal and ethical issues in technology and the brain sciences.

Nathan Lepora is a Senior Lecturer in Engineering Mathematicss at the University of Bristol, UK, and leads the Tactile Robotics Theme at Bristol Robotics Laboratory. His research interests span robotics, neuroscience, and biomimetics, focusing on the design of novel 3D-printed dexterous tactile robotic hands and sensors that can intelligently perceive, explore, and manipulate their environment. His team's research is supported by EPSRC and a Leverhulme Leadership Award, has won several international awards in robotics, and is on display in the Science Museum, London. He has authored over 60 academic publications, edited several proceedings, including three Living Machines conference volumes, and also written eight books for children on science and technology.

Paul Verschure is a research professor with the Catalan Institute of Advanced Studies and Director of the Neuroengineering program at the Catalan Institute for Bioengineering. Paul trained in Psychology and his scientific aim is to find a unified theory of mind and brain using synthetic methods and to apply it to quality of life enhancing technologies. He has advanced a theory of mind and brain, Distributed Adaptive Control, which has led to a novel neurorehabilitation approach called the Rehabilitation Gaming System (eodyne.com). He also explores new methods for the exploration of complex data (brainx3.com) that is being tested on data from the human brain. Complementary to his science, Paul has developed and deployed over 25 art installations (http://specs.upf.edu/installations) from interactive spaces to BCI orchestras, robot Theremin soloists and virtual/augmented reality installations and tools for the holocaust memorial sites (futurememoryfoundation.org).

Section I: Roadmaps
1. Living Machines: an Introduction, Tony J. Prescott and Paul F. M. J. Verschure
2. A Living Machines Approach to the Sciences of Mind and Brain, Paul F. M. J. Verschure and Tony J. Prescott
3. A Roadmap for Living Machines, Nathan F. Lepora, Paul Verschure, and Tony J. Prescott
Section II: Life
4. Life, Tony J. Prescott
5. Self-Organization, Stuart P. Wilson
6. Energy and Metabolism, I. A. Ieropoulos, P. Ledezma, G. Scandroglio, C. Melhuish, and J. Greenman
7. Reproduction, Matthew S. Moses and Gregory S. Chirikjian
8. Evo-devo, Tony J. Prescott and Leah Krubitzer
9. Growth and tropism, Barbara Mazzolai
10. Biomimetic Materials, Julian Vincent
11. Modeling Self and Others, Josh Bongard
12. Towards a general theory of evolution, Terrence W. Deacon
Section III: Building Blocks
13. Building blocks, Nathan F. Lepora
14. Vision, Piotr Dudek
15. Audition, Leslie S. Smith
16. Touch, Nathan F. Lepora
17. Chemosensation, Tim C. Pearce
18. Proprioception and Body Schema, Minoru Asada
19. Electric Sensing for Underwater Navigation, Frederic Boyer and Vincent Lebastard
20. Muscles, Iain A. Anderson and Benjamin M. O'Brien
21. Rhythms and Oscillations, Allen Selverston
22. Skin and Dry Adhesion, Changhyun Pang, Chanseok Lee, Hoon-Eui Jeong, and Kahp-Yang Suh
Section IV: Capabilities
23. Capabilities, Paul F.M.J. Verschure
24. Pattern Generation, Holk Cruse and Malte Schilling
25. Perception, Joel Z. Leibo and Tomaso Poggio
26. Learning and Control, Ivan Herreros
27. Attention and Orienting, Ben Mitchinson
28. Decision Making, Nathan F. Lepora
29. Spatial and Episodic Memory, Ugur Murat Erdem, Nicholas Roy, John Joseph Leonard, and Michael E. Hasselmo
30. Reach, Grasp, and Manipulate, Mark R. Cutkosky
31. Quadruped Locomotion, Hartmut Witte, Martin S. Fischer, Holger Preuschoft, Danja Voges, Cornelius Schilling, and Auke Jan Ijspeert
32. Flight, Anders Hedenstrom
33. Communication, Robert H. Wortham and Joanna J. Bryson
34. Emotions and Self-Regulation, Vicky Vouloutsi and Paul F. M. J Verschure
35. The Architecture of Mind and Brain, Paul F.M.J. Verschure
36. A Chronology of Distributed Adaptive Control, Paul F.M.J. Verschure
37. Consciousness, Anil K. Seth
Section V: Living machines
38. Biomimetic Systems, Tony J. Prescott
39. Towards Living Nanomachines, Christof Mast, Friederike Moller, Moritz Kreysing, Severin Schink, Benedikt Obermayer, Ulrich Gerland, and Dieter Braun
40. From Slime Moulds to Deformable Bodies, Akio Ishiguro and Takuya Umedachi
41. Soft-bodied Terrestrial Invertebrates and Robots, Barry Trimmer
42. Applying Principles and Mechanisms Learned from Insects to Robotics, Roger D. Quinn and Roy E. Ritzmann
43. Co-operation in Collective Systems, Stefano Nolfi
44. From Aquatic Animals to Robot Swimmers, Maarja Kruusmaa
45. Mammals and Mammal-like Robots, Tony J. Prescott
46. Winged artifacts, Wolfgang Send
47. Humans and Humanoids, Giorgio Metta and Roberto Cingolani
Section VI: Biohybrid Systems
48. Biohybrid Systems, Nathan F. Lepora
49. Brain-machine interfaces, Girijesh Prasad
50. Implantable Neural Interfaces, Stefano Vassanelli
51. Biohybrid Robots are Synthetic Biology Systems, Joseph Ayers
52. Micro and Nanotechnology for Living Machines, Toshio Fukuda, Masahiro Nakajima, Masaru Takeuchi, and Yasuhisa Hasegawa
53. Biohybrid Touch Interfaces, Sliman J. Bensmaia
54. Implantable Hearing Interfaces, Torsten Lehmann and Andre van Schaik
55. Hippocampal Memory Prostheses, Dong Song and Theodore W. Berger
Section VII: Perspectives
56. Perspectives, Michael Szollosy
57. Human Augmentation and the Age of the Transhuman, James Hughes
58. From Sensory Substitution to Perceptual Supplementation, Charles Lenay and Matthieu Tixier
59. Neurorehabilitation, Belen Rubio Ballester
60. Human Relationships with Living Machines, Abigail Millings and Emily C. Collins
61. Living Machines in our Cultural Imagination, Michael Szollosy
62. The Ethics of Virtual Reality and Telepresence, Hannah Maslen and Julian Savulescu
63. Can Machines have Rights?, David J. Gunkel
64. A Sketch of the Education Landscape in Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Anna Mura and Tony J. Prescott
65. Sustainability of Living Machines, Jose Halloy

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