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Nathan F. Lepora is a Professor of Robotics & AI with interests in natural, artificial and embodied intelligence in robotics and neuroscience.

His interests include how real and artificial agents can perceive, learn, interact, understand and manipulate our surroundings.

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News & information

Fully-funded UK PhD studentship on robotic dual-arm manipulation (to start 1st November 2023)

The IEEE Transactions on Robotics Special Issue on Tactile Robotics is taking submissions!

Recent public talks at Pint-of-Science and the Festival Standon Calling

Elektra Awards 2022 – we’ve been shortlisted… and won!
The Royal Society – Invited blog on human-like robot dexterity is published
Books – Robots (DKfindout!) has 130 ratings (4.7* average) on Amazon!
Media – BBC4 documentary Secrets of Skin has a segment on our research
Books – Edited volume Living Machines wins 1st Prize at BMA book awards
Tutorial – Here are the slides from my IROS 2022 Tutorial on Tactile Servoing

Review articles and other highlights:
Learning offline: Memory replay in biological & artificial reinforcement learning (Trends in Neurosciences)
Soft Biomimetic Optical Tactile Sensing with the TacTip: A Review (IEEE Sensors)
The statistics of optimal decision making (J. Mathematical Psychology)
The TacTip family: Soft optical tactile sensors with 3d-printed biomimetic morphologies (Soft Robotics)
The state of the art in biomimetics (Bioinspiration & Biomimetics)