James A. R. Marshall

James A. R. Marshall

Professor James Marshall is Director of the Centre for Machine Intelligence at the University of Sheffield, and Founder Science Officer at Opteran Technologies Ltd. With an interdisciplinary background spanning computer science and biology, James has spent over a decade seeking to understand the behaviour and brains of insects, and use this to design very efficient, robust, and understandable controllers for robotics. This approach, which has been dubbed Natural Intelligence, differs from the data-driven approach of current AI technologies, by directly reverse-engineering the algorithms that brains implement.
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    The University of Sheffield
  • Profession
    Director, Centre for Machine Intelligence
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8 July 2025
14:20 - 14:40
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