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	Robot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robots may have various forms and may perform many different tasks, but technically speaking, their structure and behaviour are based much on the same principles.
		The study of the robot’s motion is mostly driven by inverse kinematics, because usually the target is known and what is needed is to calculate the angles of the joints that permit to achieve the target.
		Besides that, and this is actually a major concern nowadays, robots’ ratio power/density is not satisfactory: the actuators of the robots should be stronger, comparing to the weight and height of their structure.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robotics (4120 words)

	Towards a Cognitive Robotics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Cognitive science then earns its status as a special science of the mind by devoting itself to the distinctive projects of tracing the transformations and flow of these internal encodings and of understanding the processes that mediate such transitions.
		Cognitive science, it may safely be presumed, is the science (or sciences) whose object is the explanation and understanding of cognition.
		Cognitive processes span the brain, the body, and the environment: to understand cognition is to understand the interplay of all three.
	mind.ucsd.edu /papers/cogrob/cogrobhtml/cogrob-text.html (6317 words)

	Christian Balkenius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Cognitive Robotics: I have built several robots to test different cognitive theories ranging from control of eye-movements (saccades, smooth pursuit), vision based navigation, eye-hand coordination, and stereo vision.
		Epigenetic robotics includes the two-fold goal of understanding biological systems by the interdisciplinary integration between social and engineering sciences and, simultaneously, that of enabling robots and artificial systems to develop skills for any particular environment instead of programming them for solving particular goals in specific environments.
		The aim of this symposium is to bring together scientists from several fields from AI and Robotics to Cognitive Science and Neuroscience interested in these topics to present, discuss and make further progresses toward the understanding of anticipatory cognitive systems situated in a real dynamic environment.
	lucs.fil.lu.se /People/Christian.Balkenius (2277 words)

	Cognitive and Adaptive Robots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Cognitive robotics is concerned with the design of robots that function in a changing, incompletely known and unpredictable environment by using high-level cognitive abilities.
		Cognitive robots are hardware versions of intelligent agents: they have knowledge, beliefs, preferences and goals, and they have informational as well as motivational attitudes, such as observing, communicating, revising beliefs, planning, and committing.
		Cognitive robotics involves the application of various AI disciplines, such as knowledge representation, automated reasoning, reasoning about actions, reasoning with incomplete or uncertain knowledge, learning, and planning.
	www.cs.uu.nl /groups/IS/robotics/robotics.html (266 words)

	Cognitive robotics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cognitive robotics (CR) is concerned with the design of robots that operate in changing environments.
		Cognitive robotics involves the application of various artificial intelligence disciplines, such as knowledge representation, automated reasoning and planning.
		It also involves the use of agent programming languages for defining transitions between mental states.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cognitive_robotics (103 words)

	AAAI 1998 Fall Symposium on Cognitive Robotics Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In contrast, research in Cognitive Robotics is concerned with the theory and the implementation of robots that reason, act and perceive in changing, incompletely known, unpredictable environments.
		In short, Cognitive Robotics is concerned with integrating reasoning, perception and action within a uniform theoretical and implementation framework.
		Recently, Cognitive Robotics has attracted the interest of several research groups, and the last few years has witnessed a good deal of work on knowledge representation and especially on reasoning about actions related to actual robots.
	www.dis.uniroma1.it /~cogrob98 (395 words)

	KUPPL - University of Kansas Phonetics and Psycholinguistics Laboratory
		Our general goal is to use high-tech "cognitive" robots to develop, test, and refine theories of human cognition and intelligent behavior.
		Investigating how ambiguity resolution could be carried out by a Cognitive Robot with sensory, deduction, actuation, and reasoning capabilities that approximate those of humans represents a cutting-edge endeavor that will allow us to test and refine theories of ambiguity resolution in humans and artificial systems.
		The goal is to integrate these projects through the use of the cognitive robot which would allow ambiguity resolution in each of these research areas to be enhanced by the resolution capabilities of the other areas.
	www.ku.edu /~kuppl/oldhp/cognproj.shtml (193 words)

	PC Magazine: Robotics: Cognitive Machines
		The prospect of robots that can behave in ways they were not hardwired to is grabbing the attention of companies from Hollywood and Silicon Valley.
		Meet Cog, an aluminum robot born in the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and a compelling experiment in robot cognition.
		Perhaps future robots will not only mop the floor but also know the difference between a clean floor and a dirty one—and a dry mouse and one that's about to drown.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_zdpcm/is_200307/ai_ziff43575 (626 words)

	Cognitive Robotics II
		The term "cognitive robotics" was first introduced by Ray Reiter and his colleagues, who have a research group on this topic at the University of Toronto.
		We already have a larger Nomad scout robot, although our preference for this work was to use "LinuxBot" robots designed and developed in the UK at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of the West of England (UWE).
		The use of DDE communications during the Cognitive Robotics I project was a partially satisfactory solution to inter-robot communication when using a single computer, but we explore the potential of the Internet based FIPA Agent Communication Language (ACL) in the context of robot to robot communication.
	www.iis.ee.ic.ac.uk /~m.witkowski/cogrob2 (1958 words)

	The Second International Cognitive Robotics Workshop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Such robots must have higher level cognitive functions that involve reasoning, for example, about goals, actions, when to perceive and what to look for, the cognitive states of other agents, time, collaborative task execution, etc. In short, Cognitive Robotics is concerned with integrating reasoning, perception and action within a uniform theoretical and implementation framework.
		While all aspects of Cognitive Robotics are of interest to the workshop, we especially welcome discussions and demonstrations of implemented systems.
		The AAAI Fall Symposium 1998 on Cognitive Robotics was held in Orlando, Florida, USA, on October 23-25, 1998, as it were the "First International Cognitive Robotics Workshop".
	www-kbsg.informatik.rwth-aachen.de /cogrob2000 (226 words)

	Tekkotsu: Cognitive Robotics
		We call our approach "cognitive robotics" because it draws inspiration from ideas in cognitive science, such as Ullman's notion of "visual routines", Paivio's "dual coding theory", and Gibson's concept of "affordances".
		Cognitive robotics makes no strong theoretical claims, but instead focuses on developing technology that actually works, on real robots, with their inherent physical constraints and sensory limitations.
		Tekkotsu's high level primitives, currently in development, will form the basis of a new Cognitive Robotics course to be offered at Carnegie Mellon in January 2006, and soon at other schools as well.
	www.cs.cmu.edu /~tekkotsu/cognitiverobotics.html (265 words)

	The Biomimetic and Cognitive Robotics Laboratory - Undergrad Research
		The BioMimetic and Cognitive Robotics (BCR) lab is dedicated to understanding the control and organization of behavior in animals.
		Undergraduate psychology majors are encouraged to participate in robot, computer simulation or animal behavior projects that contribute to the BCR Lab mission.
		These are robots that are equipped with light, sound and proximity sensors and are programmable in C. Writing software for these robots is a way to explore theories of brain function.
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /userhome/psych/fgrasso/ugrad.html (728 words)

	Robotics Institute: Tekkotsu: Cognitive robotics on the Sony AIBO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Tekkotsu (the name means "framework" in Japanese) is an application development framework for the Sony AIBO robot that endeavors to provide an intuitive set of primitives for perception, manipulation, and control.
		Tira-Thompson, N.S. Halelamien, J.J. Wales, and D.S. Touretzky, "Tekkotsu: Cognitive robotics on the Sony AIBO," Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Cognitive Modelling, July, 2004, pp.
		The Robotics Institute is part of the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University.
	www.ri.cmu.edu /pubs/pub_4987_text.html (282 words)

	CRL Cognitive Robotics Laboratory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Cognitive Robotics Laboratory (CRL) conducts research on humanoid robots, service robots, multi-robot teams, and human-robot symbiosis.
		Though these directions may appear quite different, they are in fact tightly coupled with each other around the goal of developing an autonomous, intelligent robot capable of perceiving the world around it as well as learning to interact with that world.
		Utilizing the cognitive architecture, ISAC will be able to prioritize tasks and discern generalizations about tasks.
	eecs.vanderbilt.edu /CIS/crl/index.shtml (370 words)

	AI, CogSci and Robotics: Robotics, Agent Modelling and Vision
		Central Research and Design Institute for Robotics and Technical Cybernetics, St.Petersburg : Research in robotics (including special and space robotic systems, submarine robots, fire-fighting robots and robot operators for nuclear power stations), photon technics, control and monitoring systems, laser technologies, information systems and computer networks, telematics and LAN manufacturing.
		Cornell - Robotics and Vision Laboratory : Research in machine vision, navigation and tracking, robotic manipulation, distributed and cooperative robotics, microelectromechanical systems, planning and control, uncertainty and error, and geometric algorithms.
		St.Petersburg - Central Research and Design Institute for Robotics and Technical Cybernetics : Research in robotics (including special and space robotic systems, submarine robots, fire-fighting robots and robot operators for nuclear power stations), photon technics, control and monitoring systems, laser technologies, information systems and computer networks, telematics and LAN manufacturing.
	transit-port.net /AI.CogSci.Robotics/robotics.html (3268 words)

	CogRob2002: Third International Cognitive Robotics Workshop
		In contrast, research in cognitive robotics is concerned with endowing robots and software agents with higher level cognitive functions that enable them to reason, act and perceive in changing, incompletely known, and unpredictable environments.
		Such robots must, for example, be able to reason about goals, actions, when to perceive and what to look for, the cognitive states of other agents, time, collaborative task execution, etc.
		AAAI Fall Symposium 1998 on Cognitive Robotics held in Orlando and the
	www.ksl.stanford.edu /cogrob2002 (465 words)

	Fordham University: Computer Vision & Robotics Lab
		We are implementing ADAPT, a cognitive architecture for a Pioneer mobile robot, to give the robot the full range of cognitive abilities including perception, use of natural language, learning and the ability to solve complex problems.
		Our perspective is that an architecture based on a unified theory of robot cognition has the best chance of attaining human-level performance.
		However, the unpredictability of debris structure and the state-of-the-art in behavior-based robot control mean that there is little way to decide if a robot can navigate effectively and whether it can detect what needs to be located.
	www.cis.fordham.edu /~lyons/rcvlab_projects.html (792 words)

	Robotics
		Harvey, I. Robotics: Philosophy of Mind using a Screwdriver In Evolutionary Robotics: From Intelligent Robots to Artificial Life, Vol.
		Harvey, I.,Evolutionary robotics and SAGA: the case for hill crawling and tournament selection Cognitive Science Research Paper 222 School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex.
		Seth, A. Noise and the Pursuit of Complexity, a Study in Evolutionary Robotics Proceedings of the 1st European Conference on Evolutionary Robotics (EVOROB98), eds.
	www.cogs.susx.ac.uk /users/ezequiel/alife-page/evorob.html (3186 words)

	The Biomimetic and Cognitive Robotics Laboratory - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Biomimetic and Cognitive Robotics (BCR) lab conducts research into the neural, ecological and behavioral foundations of intelligence.
		Closely paralleled animal and robot studies are conducted to quantitatively evaluate alternative explanations for the intelligent behavior of biological systems.
		The primary aim of this research is understanding biological mechanisms of behavior and a secondary aim is the development of new technologies inspired by animal abilities.
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /userhome/psych/fgrasso (103 words)

	Complexity Digest - Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems
		Introduction: The Third International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics (L. Berthouze and C. Prince): (...) The focus of this workshop is on the cross-disciplinary interaction of developmental psychology and robotics.
		The term "epigenetic" is used in much the same sense as the term "developmental" and while we could call our topic "developmental robotics", developmental robotics can be seen as having a broader interdisciplinary emphasis.
		Our focus in this workshop is on the interaction of developmental psychology and robotics and we use the phrase "epigenetic robotics" to capture this focus.
	www.comdig.org /article.php?id_article=15382 (163 words)

	Call for Papers
		a prolonged developmental process through which varied and complex cognitive and perceptual structures emerge as a result of an embodied system interacting with a physical and social environment.
		Epigenetic robotics includes basic research goals of interdisciplinary integration between developmental psychology and robotics.
		Psychological theory and empirical evidence should be used to inform epigenetic robotic models, and these models should be used as theoretical tools to make experimental predictions in developmental psychology.
	www.d.umn.edu /~cprince/epigenetic-robotics/2003/cfp-03/cfp.html (582 words)

	Cognitive Robotics at ENSTA
		The "Cognitive Robotics" theme at ENSTA is at the crossroad of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics.
		One of the main research topic is the problem of grounding symbols in perception (see the Talking Robots experiment, inspired by the Sony CSL Talking Heads) in the framework of developmental robotics.
		In a more applied context, we also work on control architectures and we created a scripting interface language for robot control (URBI).
	cogrob.ensta.fr (115 words)

	Legolog
		The longer movie starts with the HP200LX controlling the robot and then shows the robot moving to a landmark where it is to make a delivery and then returning to the "home position".
		The robot is to make pick-ups and deliveries between way stations and otherwise wait at the first landmark for requests.
		This software was developed by the Cognitive Robotics Group under the direction of Hector Levesque and Ray Reiter.
	www.cs.toronto.edu /cogrobo/Legolog (605 words)

	Cognitive Robotics I
		Our experiments involved a map-building task for a single robot and a logic programming approach to representation and implementation was adopted.
		Both robots were controlled as independent processes on a single computer (using Win-Prolog from LPA).
		Please refer to the Cognitive Robotics II pages for an up-dated list of our publications in the area of Cognitive Robotics.
	www.iis.ee.ic.ac.uk /~m.witkowski/cogrob (1333 words)

	Robotics Papers
		The skeleton in the cognitive map: a computational and empirical exploration.
		A robot exploration and mapping strategy based on a semantic hierarchy of spatial representations.
		A continuous approach to robot motion planning with many degrees of freedom.
	www.cs.utexas.edu /users/qr/robotics/papers.html (1074 words)

	Robotics Institute: Cognitive primitives for mobile robots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		AAAI 2004 Fall Symposium Series, "The Intersection of Cognitive Science and Robotics: From Interfaces to Intelligence" report FS-04-05, 2004, pp.
		Tekkotsu (see www.Tekkotsu.org) is an application development framework for the Sony AIBO mobile robot that endeavors to provide an intuitive set of primitives for perception, manipulation, and attentional control, drawing on insights from cognitive science.
		Tira-Thompson, N.S. Halelamien, J.J. Wales, and D.S. Touretzky, "Cognitive primitives for mobile robots," AAAI 2004 Fall Symposium Series, "The Intersection of Cognitive Science and Robotics: From Interfaces to Intelligence" report FS-04-05, 2004, pp.
	www.ri.cmu.edu /pubs/pub_4986_text.html (230 words)

	Cognitive Robotics: Adaptable Synthetic Robot Languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		"An Adaptive Communication Protocol for Cooperating Mobile Robots." In From Animals to Animats 2: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, edited by J.-A. Meyer, H.L. Roitblat and S.W. Wilson.
		In Proceedings of the Workshop on Dynamically Interacting Robots, held at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Chambery, France, August 1993.
		In Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on the Applications of Artificial Intelligence to Real World Robots, Boston, MA, October 1992.
	www.ai.mit.edu /projects/cognitive-robotics/asrl.html (166 words)

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