Designing the Mind of a Social Robot

Humans have an innate tendency to anthropomorphize surrounding entities and have always been fascinated by the creation of machines endowed with human-inspired capabilities and traits. In the last few decades, this has become a reality with enormous advances in hardware performance, computer graphic...

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Published in:Applied sciences 2018-02, Vol.8 (2), p.302
Main Authors: Lazzeri, Nicole, Mazzei, Daniele, Cominelli, Lorenzo, Cisternino, Antonio, De Rossi, Danilo Emilio
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Artificial intelligence
cognitive architecture
Computer graphics
Control systems
Human behavior
human-inspired robot
Humanoid
Interdisciplinary research
Interdisciplinary studies
Robot control
robot mind
Robotics
Robots
social cognition
social robot
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Summary:Humans have an innate tendency to anthropomorphize surrounding entities and have always been fascinated by the creation of machines endowed with human-inspired capabilities and traits. In the last few decades, this has become a reality with enormous advances in hardware performance, computer graphics, robotics technology, and artificial intelligence. New interdisciplinary research fields have brought forth cognitive robotics aimed at building a new generation of control systems and providing robots with social, empathetic and affective capabilities. This paper presents the design, implementation, and test of a human-inspired cognitive architecture for social robots. State-of-the-art design approaches and methods are thoroughly analyzed and discussed, cases where the developed system has been successfully used are reported. The tests demonstrated the system’s ability to endow a social humanoid robot with human social behaviors and with in-silico robotic emotions.
ISSN:2076-3417
2076-3417
DOI:10.3390/app8020302