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,…
Simulated Pioneer GPS Service The Simulated Pioneer GPS service provides a simple localization service to be used in the Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio simulator. It consists in a simple box shape entity (PioneerGPSEntity) that can be attached to a simulated…
First of all, the mirror test is not exactly intended as a general test for consciousness, but a specific test for self-consciousness, and more exactly self-recognition. It is generally applied to some higher mammals and infants. The test consists on…
Pentti Haikonen comments invited by Conscious-Robots.com editor on the recent article about Haikonen’s Architecture for Conscious Machines written by Trung Doan. I wish to thank Trung Doan for his analysis of my approach towards machine consciousness here. Trung Doan has done a lot of…
Second Issue of the International Journal of Machine Consciousness Available The second issue of the International Journal of Machine Consciousness is available online (Vol. 1. Issue 2. December 2009)! The second issue of IJMC is a collection of selected papers from the…
Pentti Haikonen’s architecture for conscious machines By Trung Doan (doanviettrung a_t gmail dot com). Haikonen’s contribution to the machine-consciousness endeavor is an architecture based on cognitive principles. He also developed some electronic microchips as a first step to building a machine…
Journal of Mind Theory Rigor in Cognitive Science The UPM Autonomous Systems Lab (AsLab) has recently launched a new journal in the field of congnitive science. The focus of the new Journal of Mind Theory (JMT) is on precise, succinct, non-interpretable…
Wakamaru, the communication robot by Mitshubishi. Wakamaru is a robot designed for human communication and interaction and its own “personality”. This robot has been designed by Toshiyuki Kita to live with humans. Its robotic body features original eyes, mouth and…