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

...s-Robots – formed by Jorge Muñoz and Raúl Arrabales won this year edition of this competition, a Turing Test adapted to the domain of videogames [1]. Raúl Arrabales (left) and Jorge Muñoz (right)...

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

...OUSNESS? ROBERTO CORDESCHI DOI No: 10.1142/S1793843010000266 Page: 31-33   THE WELL-TESTED YOUNG SCIENTIST COLIN HALES DOI No: 10.1142/S1793843010000278 Page: 35-39  &...

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

...f an agent using ConsScale, its architectural components have to be identified and its cognitive skills tested. Using this information as input, the scale can be used to obtain both a qualitative and ...

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

...tions have been temporarily curtailed to take other simpler animals as a model. Currently, due to the latest technical advances that have been achieved, it seems that we are returning to the original ...

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

...e also briefly discussed, but many other AI approaches are simply ignored. In sum, this is not the latest review of AI bio-inspired techniques, nor a comprehensive historical review of the AI field...

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

...ness), and the associated Φ measure. The authors propose to use IIT for a machine consciousness test. One test would be to ask the machine to describe a scene in a discriminating way, extracti...

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

...s in cost and time, during development phases we are used to using simulation tools in order to quickly test our hypotheses. However, the final target is always the physical robot and its application ...

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

...sp; Neuron Microchips.Markku Åberg and Arto Rantala. VTT Finland.  ConsScale: A Plausible Test for Machine Consciousness?.Raúl Arrabales, Agapito Ledezma, and Araceli Sanchis. Universida...

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

...ighly controversial, each issue will endorse a blend of papers covering provocative theories as well as testable models. Machine consciousness is pursued for: Implementing and designing machine...

10. Cognitive Computation
(Publications/Journals on Consciousness & Machine Consciousness)

...eory, and computational cognitive neuroscience, as well as submissions focusing on the development of latest research into practical applications. Cognitive Computation Journal Homepage &nbsp...

11. Eternalizing Consciousness using an Artificial Intelligence Bot
(Conscious Machines/Machine Consciousness Projects)

...: an array of file types that the user uploads (and can view) using our lifenaut interface, personality test results, profile information, and lines of conversation from teaching sessions between the ...

12. Theatre of the Mind
(Reviews/Consciousness Books Reviews)

...he Mind. It is written in a direct and easy way, thus creating a comfortable and enjoyable summary of latest advances in the search for an explanation of consciousness. Other strong point I see in thi...

13. Consciousness Explained
(Reviews/Consciousness Books Reviews)

... consciousness. The multiple draft model presented in the book is quite interesting and it seems that latest advances in neuroscience prove the basics assumptions of the model. The Cartesian Theatre a...

14. Nokia Workshop on Machine Consciousness 2008
(Publications/Conferences)

...logy, imagination, qualia, formal models, practical applications in robotics, hardware implementations, testing for consciousness, and emotions were addressed by the participants and vividly discussed...

15. 13th Finnish Artificial Intelligence Conference (STeP 2008)
(Publications/Conferences)

...machine consciousness;nothing or everything 12:00 Lunch   Session 5. Realization and Testing 13:00 Markku Åberg: Neuron microchips 13:30 Raúl Arrabales Moreno: ConsSca...

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

...hey can learn by heart different paths to an object, and apply learning to get to the object by the shortest path. In fact, our devices have participated in robot soccer tournaments, and they have won...

17. Feelix Growing Project
(Conscious Machines/Machine Consciousness Projects)

...cludes implementation of robotic systems that improve existing work in each of those aspects, and their testing in the key identified scenarios. Integration of (a) the above capabilities in at l...

18. The Cognitive Approach to Conscious Machines
(Publications/Books)

...dy problem are presented. This book is a must for anyone interested in consciousness research and the latest ideas in the forthcoming technology of mind. Search inside the book at Amazon.com. ...

19. Can a robot pass the mirror test?
(Conscious Machines/Conscious Robots)

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 so

20. SOUL Project
(Conscious Machines/Machine Consciousness Projects)

... form of reusable software modules using standardized software deployment platforms. Finally, as real testbeds, the conceptual framework, the architecture and the reusable modules will be used in th...

21. Sensopac Project
(Conscious Machines/Machine Consciousness Projects)

... and decision making, this will underlie the machine’s abilities to create abstractions, to suggest and test hypotheses, and develop self-awareness. The project will demonstrate how a naïve system c...

22. CyberChild
(Conscious Machines/Machine Consciousness Projects)

...ed Child's brain is a simplified neural system. For more information see: CyberChild A Simulation Test-Bed for Consciousness Studies.pp. 31-45(15) Author: Cotterill R. Journal of Consciousness S...

23. Rodney M J Cotterill
(Researchers and Associations/Researchers)

...of Denmark Department of Physics Denmark   Coterill developed CyberChild - A simulation test-bed for consciousness studies. Rodney M J Cotterill Homepage. ...

24. Robot Free Will
(Conscious Machines/The Field of Machine Consciousness)

...chines? Consciousness and free will have been typically evading the scientific arena. However, in the latest decades, philosophers and scientists have begun to work together in the search for a scient...

25. CERA
(Conscious Machines/Machine Consciousness Projects)

...a flexible research framework in which different consciousness and emotion models can be integrated and tested. The CERA native components have been already implemented following the object oriented d...

26. PSYCHE-B Discussion Forum
(Researchers and Associations/Discussion Forums)

...ut our hands on? How can the neural (or other) correlates of consciousness be operationally defined and tested?C) What research has been done, and what does it contribute to our understanding with ref...

27. What is Machine Consciousness?
(Conscious Machines/The Field of Machine Consciousness)

...the concept of machine consciousness is not really new. What I think is new is the application of the latest scientific or philosophic models of consciousness in the Artificial Intelligence arena. Bas...

28. Consciousness in Vegetative State?
(Neuroscience/Human Brain)

...way to determine the level of awareness of a robot. Obviously, the first reference is always the Turing test. However, as demonstrated in humans, a purely external evaluation could not be valid in ter...

29. What is Conscious-Robots.com?
(FAQs/Site FAQs)

...urces, publications and information about Machine Consciousness research and related AI techniques. Latest news and reviews about conscious software, conscious machines and robots used for research ...

30. The Awakening of Conscious Bots
(Conscious Machines/Machine Consciousness Projects - Spanish)

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