Gostai releases an Open Source Edition of Urbi (Urbi 2.1 – Open Source AGPL v3) URBI is a software development platform for robotics that supports asynchronous event management and orchestration. URBI also provides software components and interfaces to many robots like…
Author: Raúl Arrabales
Third Issue of the International Journal of Machine Consciousness Available The third issue of the IJMC (volume 2, issue 1, June 2010) is now available online! This issue is centered around the target paper “An Alternative to Working on Machine Consciousness”…
Microsoft Robotics have recently announced the release of Robotics Developer Studio 2008 R3, which is now available for download free of charge More information and direct download is available at RDS official website:http://www.microsoft.com/robotics/ Details about this new 2008 R3 version…
The Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science (SCCS) at the University of Sussex has been recently founded SCCS web site: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/sackler/index Founded in 2010 with a generous donation from the Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation, the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science (SCCS)…
Tutorial on AI and Machine Consciousness at AAAI Conference by Antonio Chella. July 11 2010. Atlanta. Twenty-Fourth Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-10). Tutorial SA-1. AI and Machine Consciousness By Antonio Chella. Machine consciousness is an emerging field that addresses the…
Pentti Haikonen is one of the most salient researchers on Machine Consciousness. His PhD Thesis entitled: “An Artificial Cognitive Neural System Based on a Novel Neuron Structure and a Reentrant Modular Architecture with Implications to Machine Consciousness” is one of…
AND Corporation has developed and commercialized a process known as Holographic Neural Technology. AND Corporation has developed a rather complete neuro-morphic model of the brain, based upon Holographic/Quantum neural technology (“H.Ne.T.”). They have been distributing these systems for some years now….
Logitech Webcam Pan Tilt Service (PanTiltCam Service) The CRUBOTS Pan Tilt Service for Logitech webcams (PanTiltCam service) is a component to be used with Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio to control the pan and tilt functions of a Logitech webcam like…
How to Make a Robot that Feels This article is divided in two parts: A summary of Kevin O’Regan keynote talk at CogSys 2010 by Raúl Arrabales. An invited extended discussion about the self and the role of action in…
Conscious-Robots.com Utilities for Robot Simulation (available at: https://github.com/raul-arrabales/crubots) CRUBOTS is a set of Robotics Developer Studio (MRDS) services developed as part of a research program in Machine Consciousness. Although these services were developed originally to work with the CERA-CRANIUM cognitive architecture,…