1. Third Issue of the IJMC
(Publications/Papers)

...ing to our understanding of the space containing all of them. We need to study what they ighlight">do or can ighlight">do, ighlight">how they can ighlight">do it, and ighlight">how the natural ones can be emulated in synthetic minds. That requires: (...

2. Logitech Webcam Pan Tilt Service
(Robotics Studio/Robotics Studio Services)

...de is available at: MRDS 2008 R2 ighlight">Download section. Service Details and Instructions To illustrate ighlight">how the service works I've added Pan Tilt control buttons to the CRANIUM Dashboard service includ...

3. Simulation Programming Language
(Robotics Studio/Robotics Studio News)

...tics as well. There is a lot of great material on the web site, especially if you are just learning ighlight">how to use RDS or if you might want to teach a class using RDS. You can ighlight">download both RDS and SPL...

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

ighlight">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 an

5. Postdoc position in San Diego
(Researchers and Associations/Jobs)

...Neurosciences Institute focuses its theoretical and experimental research on the principles underlying ighlight">how we perceive and act upon the world, ighlight">how we learn and remember, and ighlight">how consciousness arises. ...

6. CRUBOTS
(Robotics Studio/Robotics Studio Services)

CRUBOTS Conscious-Robots.com Utilities for Robot Simulation CRUBOTS is a set of Robotics Developer Studio (MRDS) services developed as part of a research program in Machine Consciousness. Although

7. Simulated GPS Service
(Robotics Studio/Robotics Studio Services)

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 sh

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

... of the associative memory can be the same as the capacity of similar complexity ranighlight">dom access memory. ighlight">However, if only partial capacity is used, then the associative memory also performs the act of c...

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

...ronic microchips as a first step to building a machine based on that architecture. Below, we look at ighlight">how a Haikonen machine might achieve consciousness once built, by examining some of its cognitive...

10. Building human-like machines
(AI Techniques/Artificial General Intelligence)

...has thus far eluded a large number of research teams working on AI around the world. “We look first at ighlight">how the brain works, then we try to understand it and later we try to imitate it in the machine. ...

11. Wakamaru
(Reviews/Robots)

...nition and speech synthesis. Wakamaru is 1 meter tall and weigths around 30 kg. The following video sighlight">hows Wakamaru in New York city: IJ4M1AHj40o More information at Wakamaru Homepage.   ...

12. MRDS 2008 R2 Released
(Robotics Studio/Robotics Studio News)

...in a Community Technology Preview. It is now available in RDS 2008 R2 (all Editions).The Log Analyzer sighlight">hows you graphically the message traffic between services in the Services View. It can be used fi...

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

... what could be the implications of successful designs. Isn’t it dangerous to build conscious machines? ighlight">How could they affect society? This talk will address these topics introducing concepts like the ...

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

...biological systems only. Therefore, it is essential that we better understand at a computational level ighlight">how biological systems naturally develop their cognitive and learning functions. In recent years,...

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

...you blog, you believe in the creation of artificial consciousness, ighlight">don’t you? RA: Yes, I believe so. ighlight">However, it is not clear to me when and to what degree we will achieve this goal. Actually, one o...

16. Second International Seminar on New Issues in Artificial Intelligence
(Publications/Conferences)

...automatically. Since we are going to combine different individual neural networks, the question now is ighlight">how to design and train those individuals so that they can be combined more effectively. The iter...

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

...ll ighlight">do not have a satisfactory theory that gives a complete explanation about what consciousness is and ighlight">how it is produced. In the second place, although there are various hypotheses trying to explain ...

18. Book Review: Brainmakers
(Reviews/Consciousness Books Reviews)

BRAINMAKERS: ighlight">How scientists are moving beyond computers to create a rival to the human brain. By David H. Freeman.Touchstone. 1995.224 pages. English.ISBN: 067151055X This is a somewhat old book th

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

...ow yet what consciousness is. They believe that consciousness will be artificially created eventually; ighlight">however, it might not be the same sort of consciousness as we think. The first assumption used ...

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

...ring development phases we are used to using simulation tools in order to quickly test our hypotheses. ighlight">However, the final target is always the physical robot and its application into the real world. A...

21. Book: Programming Microsoft Robotics Studio
(Robotics Studio/Robotics Developer Studio Resources and Howto)

...inighlight">dows®–based development using Microsoft Visual Studio® and the Microsoft .NET Framework, this guide sighlight">hows ighlight">how to use the services provided in the Robotics Studio to handle navigation and remote cont...

22. Released Robotics Developer Studio 2008
(Robotics Studio/Robotics Studio News)

...y Technical Preview) version of MRDS that we were using is going to be removed from the ighlight">Download area. ighlight">However, as it is currently required by Robochamps current challenge entries, it'll still be ther...

23. International Journal of Machine Consciousness
(Publications/Journals on Consciousness & Machine Consciousness)

...ve Science, Philosophy of Mind, Linguistics, Logic), and empirical ones (Psychology and Neuroscience). ighlight">However, machine consciousness focuses mostly on attempts to use robots and informational machine...

24. Toward a Science of Consciousness 2009
(Publications/Conferences)

...erences are known for broad, interdisciplinary and multi-faceted approaches to the age-old question of ighlight">how the brain produces consciousness awareness Subjective inner experience has long been approa...

25. I Am a Strange Loop
(Reviews/Consciousness Books Reviews)

...ousness this is actually a must, given the multidisciplinary nature of the study of consciousness. Anyighlight">how, I am to some extend an experienced reader of essays on philosophy of mind, and I’ve been sur...

26. 13th Finnish Artificial Intelligence Conference (STeP 2008)
(Publications/Conferences)

...ical foundations of phenomenal content in a conscious machine 11:00 Germund Hesslow: Qualia and ighlight">how to make a machine have them (tentative title) 11:30 Pentti Haikonen: The role of quali...

27. We will create conscious machines in the future
(Researchers and Associations/Interviews and Lectures)

... vaccines. Shortly after that, he lost interest in immunology and focused on one of the big questions: ighlight">how the brain works? In the last two decades Edelman has become one of the most respectable res...

28. RoboChamps Competition
(Robotics Studio/Robotics Studio News)

...robot. The good thing is that you could use exactly the same code to control a real physical robot. Anyighlight">how, the great advantage of this software simulated competition is that you are provided with ric...

29. Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 CTP April
(Robotics Studio/Robotics Studio News)

...zation using Role-based access control allowing to fine-grained control of who can access services and ighlight">how. - Support for LINQ queries in DSSP subscriptions enabling applications to create complex q...

30. 1st International Seminar on New Issues of AI
(AI Techniques/Biologicaly Inspired AI)

...roblems which are, in essence, optimization problems and review the classical optimization methods to sighlight">how that they are not adequate in solving such demanding tasks. On the other hand, in the past co...