Latest content from www.Conscious-Robots.com! http://www.conscious-robots.com?lang= Fri, 18 May 2012 01:51:24 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.conscious-robots.com/images/favicon.ico http://www.conscious-robots.com Latest content from www.Conscious-Robots.com! http://www.conscious-robots.com/en/conscious-machines/conscious-robots/xcr-1-robot.-sound-direction-detection-demo.html.html Sound direction detection demo using the Haikonen Architecture in the XCR-1 Robot In this experiment, Haikonen’s XCR-1 robot detects the sound direction information and integrates it with the wheel drive so that the robot is able to home in on the sound source. Note that in the beginning of the first episode the robot is moving on its own initiative and the command "robot!" captures the robot's attention and the ongoing activity is terminated at once. The "ears", two electret microphones and their preamplifiers are located on the each side of the robot. Sound direction is determined by the re... Raul Arrabales Conscious Machines - Conscious Robots Mon, 16 Apr 2012 07:07:40 +0100 http://www.conscious-robots.com/en/researchers-and-associations/jobs/post-doctoral-research-fellows-babel-project-3-posts.html.html Post-doctoral Research Fellows (BABEL Project) - 3 Posts Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems, Plymouth University UK The Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems at Plymouth University (UK) is seeking three post-doctoral research fellows (http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AEA080/post-doctoral-research-fellows-in-computational-neuroscience-cognitive-robotics-babel-project/) for a period of up to 48 months to work on the EPSRC funded collaborative project "BABEL: Bio-inspired Architecture for Brain Embodied Language" The three posts will respectively focus on: Postdoc RF1: You will carry out resea... Raul Arrabales Researchers and Associations - Job Vacancies, Research Positions, Work Opportunities Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:03:42 +0100 http://www.conscious-robots.com/en/researchers-and-associations/jobs/phd-fellowship-autonomy-and-levels-of-organization.html.html Call for a 4 year FPI (PhD) fellowship associated with the research project "Autonomy and Levels of Organization" (FFI2011-25665) in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) Deadline: 23th of February 2012 This project aims at searching into and solving several conceptual problems that arise when the idea of levels of organization is tried to make compatible with a theoretical perspective based on the concept of autonomy, as applied to the fields of biology, cognitive science and bioethics, with the central goal of studying the role ... Raul Arrabales Researchers and Associations - Job Vacancies, Research Positions, Work Opportunities Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:14:45 +0100 http://www.conscious-robots.com/en/publications/conferences/cognition-and-consciousness.-retecog-summer-school-2012.html.html “Cognition and Consciousness” Retecog Summer School 2012 5-8 June 2012, Menorca, Spain.http://summerschool.retecog.net/ (http://summerschool.retecog.net/) Invited Lecturers: Kevin O’Regan, Anil Seth, Ap Dijsterkuis Arne Öhman. Introduction The Retecog Network fosters interdisciplinary collaboration to promote the advancement of Cognitive Science in Spain. This summer school aims to offer an overview of research in Cognitive Science through the choice of an area of research which provides a clear demonstration of the potential benefits of multidisciplinary cross-fertilization. It is add... Raul Arrabales Publications and Conferences - Conferences Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:06:09 +0100 http://www.conscious-robots.com/en/publications/conferences/bica-2012.html.html BICA 2012BICA Society (http://bicasociety.org/) University of Palermo (http://portale.unipa.it/) CALL FOR PAPERS The challenge of creating a real-life computational equivalent of the human mind, known as the BICA Challenge, calls for our joint efforts to develop biologically-inspired intelligent agents that can be accepted and trusted by the human society in various roles, on an equal footing with human agents. The main objective of BICA 2012 is to take a significant step forward towards the BICA Challenge. The topics of BICA 2012 will include (but not be limited to):- models capable of... Raul Arrabales Publications and Conferences - Conferences Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:00:00 +0100 http://www.conscious-robots.com/en/publications/conferences/cfp-advances-in-cognitive-and-emotional-information-processing-aceip-.html.html Call for PapersAdvances in Cognitive and Emotional Information Processing (ACEIP) Submissions are invited for a special session on Advances in Cognitive and Emotional Information Processing (ACEIP) to be held within the 2012 International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN), taking place from 11th to 14th July in Shenyang (China). ABSTRACTCognitive and Emotional Information Processing techniques have encountered a large success within the scientific community, specially due to the impact they naturally have in diverse application fields as commerce, tourism, education and health. A wide nu... Raul Arrabales Publications and Conferences - Conferences Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:45:54 +0100 http://www.conscious-robots.com/en/publications/conferences/robotica-2012-12th-international-conference-on-autonomous-robot-systems-and-competitions.html.html Robotica 2012: 12th International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions April 11, 2012, Guimarães, Portugal The 12th International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (www.Robotica2012.org/EC (http://www.robotica2012.org/EC)) is an international scientific meeting in the field of autonomous robotics, and related areas, which will take place in conjunction with the 12th Portuguese Robotics Open, a RoboCup Local Event. As in previous years, we expect the conference to get the Technical co-sponsorship of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. The conf... Raul Arrabales Publications and Conferences - Conferences Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:40:06 +0100 http://www.conscious-robots.com/en/researchers-and-associations/jobs/graduate-fellowships-ci-games-at-unr.html.html UNR offers two PhD fellowships up for grabs starting next year, open for all research areas, though we would certainly like to see applications from the ci-games community. Our faculty in that area are: Kostas Bekris - motion planning, simulated roboticsBobby Bryant - ANN, GA, simulated biological intelligenceSushil Louis - evolutionary computation You must get accepted into our PhD program to receive a fellowship. The deadline for fall 2012 is February 28, for both the fellowship application and the graduate program application. The following links provide the necessary information: http... Raul Arrabales Researchers and Associations - Job Vacancies, Research Positions, Work Opportunities Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:22:06 +0100 http://www.conscious-robots.com/en/publications/conferences/2012.-the-alan-turing-year.html.html 2012 The Alan Turing Year A Centenary Celebration of the Life and Work of Alan Turing June 23, 2012, is the Centenary of Alan Turing’s birth in London. During his relatively brief life, Turing made a unique impact on the history of computing, computer science, artificial intelligence, developmental biology, and the mathematical theory of computability. See http://www.turingcentenary.eu/ (http://www.turingcentenary.eu/) for more details and related events around the world. A remarkable example is the AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012, where several symposia related with Turing (http://events... Raul Arrabales Publications and Conferences - Conferences Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:54:54 +0100 http://www.conscious-robots.com/en/publications/conferences/eais-2012.html.html EAIS 2012 2012 IEEE Conference on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems Deadline extended: February, 15. 2012. This EAIS Edition will be held in Madrid, Spain, between May 17-18, 2012. One of the important research challenges today is to develop new theoretical methods, algorithms, and implementations of systems with a higher level of flexibility and autonomy, we can say with higher level of intelligence. Intelligent systems should be dynamically evolving and be able to adapt and learn. That is, the system must be able to evolve, to self-develop, to self-organize, to self-evaluate a... Raul Arrabales Publications and Conferences - Conferences Mon, 31 Oct 2011 06:04:28 +0100 http://www.conscious-robots.com/en/researchers-and-associations/jobs/birmingham-fellows-in-robotics-and-cognitive-systems.html.html University of Birmingham is currently performing a search to find 50 world-class postdoctoral fellows in a variety of areas *including robotics and cognitive systems*. The post provides a 5-year research-only position followed by a permanent university position. Applicants that complement and enhance existing robotics and cognitive systems strengths will be very welcome. The full advert is below, but the relevant links are as follows: Fellowship scheme: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/excellence/fellows/apply/index.aspx Intelligent Robotics Lab: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/go/irlab Centre f... Raul Arrabales Researchers and Associations - Job Vacancies, Research Positions, Work Opportunities Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:51:20 +0100 http://www.conscious-robots.com/en/publications/conferences/assc-16.html.html ASSC16, Brighton, UK, July 02-06 2012 The 16th meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness http://www.theassc.org/conferences/assc_16 We are delighted to announce that the 16th meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness will take place in Brighton, UK, from July 02-06, 2012. The meeting will be organized by the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science at the University of Sussex (www.sussex.ac.uk/sackler). Brighton, affectionately known as ‘London by the sea’ is a popular international conference destination. It is only 49 minutes... Raul Arrabales Publications and Conferences - Conferences Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:39:43 +0100 http://www.conscious-robots.com/en/reviews/robots/the-tower-of-hanoi-for-robotics.html.html The Tower of Hanoi for Robotics A contest in mobile manipulation for undergraduate and graduate robotics students London Science Museum, London, UK. Dec. 2, 2011. In association with the 1st European Robotics Week and the EU Robots Festival www.robotics-challenge.eu Raul Arrabales Reviews - Robots for Machine Consciousness Research Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:34:39 +0100 http://www.conscious-robots.com/en/publications/conferences/toward-a-science-of-consciousness-stockholm-live-stre.html (http://www.mindevent.se/live-streaming/) Live Streaming from TSC 2011 at Stockholm:http://www.mindevent.se/live-streaming/ (http://www.mindevent.se/live-streaming/) Toward a Science of Consciousness 2011 (en/publications/conferences/toward-a-science-of-consciousness-2011.html) Raul Arrabales Publications and Conferences - Conferences Fri, 06 May 2011 04:06:25 +0100 http://www.conscious-robots.com/en/publications/conferences/retecog-2011-the-architectures-of-mind.html ReteCog.Net 2011 WorkshopThe Architectures of Mind Workshop ReteCog.Net 2011: The architectures of MindDates: 4-6 JulyVenue: ASLab, Madrid, Spain ReteCog 2011 is centered around the major topic of COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURE. Unveiling the architecture of the mind is a cornerstone of all our research programmes. The workshop aims to bring together leading scholars, scientists and engineers who use analytic and synthetic methods both to understand the astonishing processing properties of biological systems, specifically those of the living brain, and to exploit such knowledge to advance engineer... Raul Arrabales Publications and Conferences - Conferences Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:56:04 +0100 http://www.conscious-robots.com/en/researchers-and-associations/interviews-and-lectures/lectures-on-machine-consciousness-madrid.html Lectures on Machine Consciousness - Madrid - February 2011 From January 31st to February 4th, 2011, the Scalab research group from the Carlos III University of Madrid will hold the 4th International Seminar on New Issues in Artificial Intelligence (http://scalab.uc3m.es/~seminarios/index.html). This edition of the AI postgraduate seminar series will include a keynote lecture on Machine Consciousness by Prof. Antonio Chella. Antonio Chella was born in Florence on March 4, 1961. In 1988 he obtained his laurea degree cum laude in Electronic Engineering from the University of Palermo and in 1... Raul Arrabales Researchers and Associations - Interviews and Lectures Fri, 21 Jan 2011 10:43:43 +0100 http://www.conscious-robots.com/en/publications/journals-on-consciousness-machine-consciousness/paladyn.-journal-of-behavioral-rob.html Paladyn. Journal of Behavioral Robotics Paladyn. Journal of Behavioral Robotics is a new journal launched by Versita (www.versita.com/pjbr (http://www.versita.com/pjbr)), a science publisher in Central and Eastern Europe and distributed by Springer (http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/journal/13230). Paladyn is a peer-reviewed, electronic-only journal that publishes the original research results on topics broadly related to biologically and psychologically inspired robots and other behavior-based autonomous systems. The journal focuses especially on cognitive developmental robotics which e... Raul Arrabales Publications and Conferences - Journals Mon, 03 Jan 2011 06:38:17 +0100 http://www.conscious-robots.com/en/conscious-machines/conscious-robots/seasons-greetings.html Season's Greetings from XCR-1 robot The XCR-1 Robot by Pentti Haikonen performs a candle search task to wish you a happy Xmas! 8Tl0q0ZX9KI Raul Arrabales Conscious Machines - Conscious Robots Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:06:16 +0100