1. XCR-1 Robot. Sound direction detection demo
(Conscious Machines/Conscious Robots)

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

2. Season's Greetings
(Conscious Machines/Conscious Robots)

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

3. Season's Greetings 2011
(Conscious Machines/Conscious Robots)

Season's Greetings from XCR-1 robot The XCR-1 Robot by Pentti Haikonen performs a "Christmas Present Task" to wish you a happy Xmas! jqv49s2uo8c

4. The Awakening of Conscious Bots
(Conscious Machines/Machine Consciousness Projects)

The Awakening of Conscious Bots Inside the Mind of the 2K BotPrize 2010 Winner AIGameDev.com features an in-depth article about CC-Bot2, the winning entry (Conscious-Robots team) of this&n

5. Review of 10 conscious robots
(Conscious Machines/Conscious Robots)

A review of ten conscious robots? Is this correct? Yes, but we are talking about classic TV robots, of course... A review of most popular commercial conscious robots would be a nice post for this w

6. Conscious-Robots team wins the 2K BotPrize 2010 competition!!!
(Conscious Machines/Conscious Robots)

Conscious-Robots team is the 2K BotPrize 2010 Competition Winner!!! The third edition of the 2K BotPrize Competition was decided recently in Copenhagen, at the 2010 IEEE Conference on Computat

7. AAAI Tutorial on Machine Consciousness
(Researchers and Associations/Interviews and Lectures)

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 C

8. Haikonen's Doctoral Thesis - Part III
(Publications/Papers)

... and Conclusions) available for download Pentti Haikonen is one of the most salient researchers on Machine Consciousness. His PhD Thesis entitled: "An Artificial Cognitive Neural System Based on a...

9. How to Make a Robot that Feels
(Conscious Machines/Conscious Robots)

...n at the CogSys 2010 conference last week. During this talk O’Regan introduced the so-called hard problem of consciousness (as coined by Chalmers) and explained his sensorimotor approach to (phenomena...

10. Haikonen's comment on article by Doan
(Conscious Machines/Theories of Consciousness)

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

11. Second Issue of the IJMC
(Publications/Papers)

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. D

12. Pentti Haikonen's architecture for conscious machines
(Conscious Machines/Theories of Consciousness)

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 b

13. ConsScale. A Scale for Measuring Machine Consciousness
(Conscious Machines/Machine Consciousness Projects)

A Scale for Measuring Machine Consciousness ConsScale is a tool for assessing the functional level of consciousness of a creature. It has been specifically designed for the evaluation of Machine

14. Information Integration Theory of Consciousness
(Conscious Machines/Theories of Consciousness)

Information Integration Theory of Consciousness According to this theory, consciousness corresponds to the capacity of a system to integrate information [1]. There are two main concepts which are ce

15. TNGS – Theory of Neuronal Group Selection
(Conscious Machines/Theories of Consciousness)

...namic core hypothesis have been proposed by Gerald M. Edelman as an explanation for the neural correlates of consciousness. As its name indicates, the theory is based on the concept of selection. A hu...

16. The Singularity. Could robots take over the world?
(Publications/Conferences)

...09. 19:00. Current developments in AI and Artificial Cognitive Systems, specifically those based on Machine Consciousness, make us wonder what could be the implications of successful designs. Isn’t i...

17. APA Newsletter: Phenomenal Machine Consciousness
(Publications/Papers)

Phenomenal Machine Consciousness   APA Newsletters on Philosohpy and Computers. Spring 2009. Vol. 8 No. 2. Articles on Phenomenal Machine Consciousness by Igor Aleksander and Pentti O. A. Ha

18. BICA. Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures 2009
(Publications/Conferences)

...tive vs. subcognitive learning.-  Biological constraints vital for learning.-  Physical support of conscious experience.-  Formal theory of cognitive architectures.-  Emotional fee...

19. BICS 2010. Brain-Inspired Cognitive Systems Conference
(Publications/Conferences)

...tional ICSC Symposium on Cognitive Neuroscience (CNS 2010).- Third International ICSC Symposium on Models of Consciousness (MoC 2010). Motivation Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems - BICS 2010 aims ...

20. Damasio Consciousness Model
(Conscious Machines/Theories of Consciousness)

Damasio Consciousness Model According to Damasio, a thing achieves self-awareness when its brain models its body, the outside world, and their interactions. At this point, the thing is self-aware,

21. Knowledge, Understanding and Consciousness
(Publications/Conferences)

Knowledge, Understanding and Consciousness 12 October 2009, St. Louis, MO, USAWorkshop on Machine Consciousness within the KIMAS'09 Conference There is an increasing interest in investigating the

22. The Development and Analysis of Conscious Machines
(Conscious Machines/Machine Consciousness Projects)

The Development and Analysis of Conscious Machines "The Development and Analysis of Conscious Machines" is the title of the PhD thesis written and developed by David Gamez at the Department of Compu

23. Consciousness Evolves Besides Genetics
(Researchers and Associations/Interviews and Lectures)

Raúl Arrabales Moreno, Machine Consciousness researcher at Carlos III University of Madrid “CONSCIOUSNESS EVOLVES BESIDES GENETICS” By Ana María Jaramillo V. (Translation of interview published by

24. Book Review: Robot Brains
(Reviews/Consciousness Books Reviews)

 ReviewRobot Brains: Circuits and Systems for Conscious Machines By Pentty Haikonen Wiley. September 2007.ISBN: 978-0-470-06204-3. The first thing that I would like to say about this book is th

25. Robotic Consciousness
(Researchers and Associations/Interviews and Lectures)

Robot Consciousness Translation of “consciousness is not a property of matter; it is simply a process" by Raúl Arrabales published in Tercera Cultura December 2008. Translated by Zenit Translations

26. Book Review: Calculating God
(Reviews/Consciousness Books Reviews)

.... 352 pages.ISBN: 0812580354 First of all, let me explain why I am posting a science fiction novel review to Conscious-Robots.com. For those of you who are familiar with this website, you know CR is a...

27. Intelligent Systems Weblog
(Conscious Machines/The Field of Machine Consciousness)

Intelligent Systems Weblog This blog run by José Carlos Cortizo is one of the most active and visited blogs from Madrimasd.org. It is dedicated to Artificial Intelligence and covers a wide range of

28. The possibility of Creating Conscious Machines
(Conscious Machines/The Field of Machine Consciousness)

...ke Lifenaut. Despite of the optimism of this claim, Koch and Tononi recall us that we don’t know yet what consciousness is. They believe that consciousness will be artificially created eventually; ...

29. AI Bots in Video Games and Virtual Worlds
(Conscious Machines/Machine Consciousness Projects)

...ually when we talk about situated agents as the target of the research in Artificial Intelligence or Machine Consciousness, we think about physical agents, like typical autonomous robots. One of the r...

30. Nokia Workshop on Machine Consciousness Proceedings
(Publications/Papers)

Nokia Workshop on Machine Consciousness 2008  August 21 - 22. 2008. Nokia Research Center, Itämerenkatu 11 - 13, Helsinki, Finland.Conference Proceedings   Conference Proceedings Book