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. Cognition and Consciousness. Retecog Summer School 2012
(Publications/Conferences)

...twork 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...

3. CFP: Advances in Cognitive and Emotional Information Processing (ACEIP)
(Publications/Conferences)

...l support to the interactions they can have between themselves and with smart cooperative environments. This asks for development of expert systems, able to manage large amount of information coming f...

4. Birmingham Fellows in Robotics and Cognitive Systems
(Researchers and Associations/Jobs)

... Science becoming one of the first academic departments in the UK to undertake research and teaching in this field. The School has around 40 academic staff, 25 research fellows, 80 PhD students and ap...

5. Lectures on Machine Consciousness - Madrid 2011
(Researchers and Associations/Interviews and Lectures)

... University of Madrid will hold the 4th International Seminar on New Issues in Artificial Intelligence. This edition of the AI postgraduate seminar series will include a keynote lecture on Machine Con...

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

...meDev.com features an in-depth article about CC-Bot2, the winning entry (Conscious-Robots team) of this year's 2K BotPrize competition at CIG. Related links:  The Awakening of C...

7. 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

8. Fellowships in Sensory Computation in Neural Systems
(Researchers and Associations/Jobs)

...or the study of sensory computations, focusing on time and dynamics, and apply these in experiments. To this end, the training group brings machine learning and engineering together with neural and co...

9. Toward a Science of Consciousness 2011
(Publications/Conferences)

...Times TBA   Consciousness in the universe. Is consciousness an epiphenomenal happenstance of this one particular universe among multitudes, as proposed in M-theory by Hawking and Mlodinow...

10. Fourth Issue of the IJMC
(Publications/Papers)

...sue (Vol. 2 No. 2. December 2010) of the International Journal of Machine Consciousness is now online This is a special issue devoted to BICA (Brain Inspired Cognitive Architectures) and MC (Machine...

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

...ppy to announce that the Spanish team – Conscious-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]. ...

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

...ss Available The third issue of the IJMC (volume 2, issue 1, June 2010) is now available online! This issue is centered around the target paper "An Alternative to Working on Machine Consciousne...

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

...e Consciousness" is one of the first doctoral dissertations in the field of Machine Consciousness. In this thesis, Haikonen introduces the Haikonen Associative Neurons and his Cognitive Architecture...

14. AND Corporation
(Researchers and Associations/Research Centers)

...ed or "superimposed" onto the complex manifold is in essence unbounded (mathematically infinite).  This is demonstrated by the ability to learn virtually unrestricted numbers of stimulus-response...

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

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

16. CRUBOTS
(Robotics Studio/Robotics Studio Services)

...vice is based on the Simple Dashboard service included in the MRDS and has been extended (based on this older version) to display real-time information of other sensors: robot camera, sonar,...

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

... be used to stand for completely different things; these signal groups act as symbols for these things. This is a necessary prerequisite for e.g. natural language and inner speech. Trung Doan's analys...

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

...d by, for example, a wire. One wire is the output from the preprocessor's "roundness" circuitry and, in this case, the signal is On. Another wire, from the "squareness" circuitry, would be Off, i.e. c...

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

...as only achieved when a person couldn't tell if their “hidden” counterparts were machines or humans. In this edition of the BotPrize, participants had to adapt their AI so as to behave as humanly as p...

20. Discussion on Robot Consciousness
(Publications/Papers)

...uring two papers, one by Stan Franklin, Bernard Baars, and Uma Ramamurthy, and other by Pentti Haikonen.This fall newsletter on Philosophy and Computers from the American Philosophical Assoc...

21. Journal of Mind Theory
(Publications/Journals on Consciousness & Machine Consciousness)

...orial board includes well known experts in the fields of cognitive science and machine consciousness. This journal tries to capture the formal science of mind, attempting to pursue the ultimate goal...

22. Wakamaru
(Reviews/Robots)

...ishi. 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 or...

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

... really connected with Cognitive Architectures and Machine Consciousness, therefore, works published in this journal might also be of interest to the readers of Conscious-Robots.com.  All issu...

24. JAGI Special Issue on Machine Consciousness
(Publications/Journals on Consciousness & Machine Consciousness)

... for work exploring the intersection between AGI and consciousness studies. The focus and contents of this Special Issue are influenced by the International Machine Consciousness Workshop which was ...

25. Toward A Science of Consciousness 2010
(Publications/Conferences)

...the absence of sensory inputs reveals brain default networks, or the brains dark energy.  How does this activity relate to consciousness?  To internally generated states like meditation, fan...

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

...ng 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 a quantitative...

27. 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

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

...s of successful designs. Isn’t it dangerous to build conscious machines? How could they affect society? This talk will address these topics introducing concepts like the Singularity. Arguments in favo...

29. Pentti Haikonen talks about Cyborgs
(Researchers and Associations/Interviews and Lectures)

Pentti Haikonen talks about Cyborgs In this video interview Pentti Haikonen share his thoughts about cyborgs. G9_GrSWxC-Y

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

...ogically inspired cognitive architectures (BICA) have emerged as a powerful new approach toward gaining this kind of understanding. The impressive success of BICA-2008 was clear evidence of this trend...