Conscious-Robots team, winner of the 2K BotPrize 2010 contest, explains how their bot is designed. Originally published at AIGameDev (2010) Most of current efforts in the development of believable bots – bots that behave like human players – are based…
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Complex natural processes such as the control of food intake might inspire the design of new Artificial Intelligence algorithms. Specifically, research in developmental programming reveals how the nervous system reprograms itself even before birth. The traditional view of the nervous…
Pentti O Haikonen. Second Edition. World Scientific 2019. Haikonen’s book is perfect for those interested in Machine Consciousness. This updated edition includes new ideas and insights. This completely revised second edition of Consciousness and Robot Sentience begins with the big…
Spanish researchers discover a bot trying to kill her creator. This Artificial Intelligence, designed to fight in First-Person Shooter video games, was surprised while looking for a way to end the life of her creator in the real world.
I’m so glad Sony finally decided to come back to the AI and robotics frontline. As many of my colleagues working in robotics, I was so disappointed 11 years ago when Sony decided to discontinue Aibo and Qrio… Aibo played…
No doubt we need better ways to test for consciousness, as much as we need better definitions. From the point of view of science, Consciousness is a controversial and quite elusive phenomenon and trying to build good tests is actually…
Looks like Boston Dynamics is moving fast from quadripedal locomotion to the outstanding Atlas biped robot. In the Atlas the upper limbs are free and they are effectively used to carry and handle loads, and even opening doors! This new Atlas…
Call for Competitors – BotPrize 2014 Competition A Turing test for Non-Player Characters in Video Games http://human-machine.unizar.es/ The 2014 BotPrize competition challenges programmers / researchers / hobbyists to create a bot for UT2004 (a first-person shooter) that can fool opponents into…
AGI 2013 – Artificial General Intelligence 2013 – Beijing, July 31 – Aug 3 2013: Call for Papers It is our great pleasure to remind you about the Sixth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, which will be held in Beijing, China,…
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…