Scientific American January 2007 issue features an article by Bill Gates titled A Robot in Every Home [1]. Is domestic robotics industry going to reach critical mass in the short term? Robotics applications in manufacturing are a reality. However, practical…
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Polymorphic Robotics, self-adaptive, self-organizing, and generally self-* properties of robotics are usually related to the field of machine consciousness. Basically, some degree of self-consciousness is required to self-repair or self-heal a robot. The SASO 2007 Conference covers this discipline (First…
Traditionally, human are the only animals considered able to plan ahead. However, recent research works demonstrate that other higher mammals (like bonobos) are able to save tools for future use. As published in Nature by Nicholas J. Mulcahy and Josep…
Emeritus Professor Aleksander Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering Head of Intelligent and Interactive Systems Imperial College London Homepage: Igor Aleksander
Owen Holland University of Essex He is PI of the EPSRC Adventure Fund project ‘Machine consciousness through internal modelling’, sometimes known as ‘the CRONOS project’. Homepage: Owen Holland
The website of CRONOS PROJECT covers Owen Holland’s and Tom Troscianko’s EPSRC Adventure fund project to build a conscious robot (GR/S47946/01). This three year project is taking place at the University of Essex and the University of Bristol and will…
Journal for Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy and Cognitive Science Editor: J.H. Moor ISSN: 0924-6495 (print version) ISSN: 1572-8641 (electronic version) Journal no. 11023 Springer Netherlands Minds and Machines affords an international forum for the discussion and debate of important and controversial…
Is machine consciousness a key aspect of strong artificial intelligence (strong AI)? Can machine consciousness be applied as a pragmatic approach in weak AI? Are machine consciousness and strong AI the same thing? Machine consciousness is relatively immature as a modern scientific…
Santiago Ramón y Cajal (May 1, 1852 – Octiber 17, 1934) was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1906 (jointly with Camillo Golgi). This Spanish scientist is considered one of the founders of neuroscience. Ramón y Cajal was very prolific in histologic studies…