ISSN 2296-9144
15 papers in the library · 212 citations · publishing 2017-2026
Frontiers in Robotics and AI May 29, 2026
Qualia as control-theoretic constructs for autonomous agents: event phase space as an action-oriented semantic safety layer.
Frontiers in Robotics and AI 2025 Luisa Damiano, Antonio Fleres, Andrea Roli et al.
Wetware Network-Based Artificial Intelligence (WNAI) introduces a new approach to robotic cognition and artificial intelligence: autonomous cognitive agents built from synthetic chemical networks. Rooted in Wetware Neuromorphic Engineering, WNAI shifts the focus of this emerging field from disembodied computation and biological mimicry to reticular chemical self-organization as a substrate for...
Frontiers in Robotics and AI November 23, 2023 Antonio Chella
Can we conceive machines that can formulate autonomous intentions and make conscious decisions? If so, how would this ability affect their ethical behavior? Some case studies help us understand how advances in understanding artificial consciousness can contribute to creating ethical AI systems.
Frontiers in Robotics and AI March 22, 2019
Editorial: Consciousness in Humanoid Robots.
Frontiers in Robotics and AI April 4, 2018 Yasuo Kinouchi, Kenneth James Mackin 19 citations
In developing a humanoid robot, there are two major objectives. One is developing a physical robot having body, hands, and feet resembling those of human beings and being able to similarly control them. The other is to develop a control system that works similarly to our brain, to feel, think, act, and learn like ours. In this article, an architecture of a control system with a brain-oriented...
Frontiers in Robotics and AI April 3, 2018 Frank van der Velde 8 citations
Phenomenal theories of consciousness assert that this is due to specific neural correlates in the brain, which can be separated from all cognitive functions we can perform. If so, the search for robot consciousness seems to be doomed. In contrast, theories of functional or access consciousness assert that consciousness can be studied only with forms of cognitive access, given by cognitive...
Frontiers in Robotics and AI March 8, 2018 A. Linson, A. Clark, S. Ramamoorthy et al. 94 citations
The emerging neurocomputational vision of humans as embodied, ecologically embedded, social agents—who shape and are shaped by their environment—offers a golden opportunity to revisit and revise ideas about the physical and information-theoretic underpinnings of life, mind, and consciousness itself. In particular, the active inference framework (AIF) makes it possible to bridge connections from...
Frontiers in Robotics and AI February 28, 2018 J. M. Bishop 44 citations
Recent articles by Schneider and Turner (Turner and Schneider, 2017; Schneider and Turner, 2017) outline an artificial consciousness test (ACT); a new, purely behavioural process to probe subjective experience (“phenomenal consciousness”: tickles, pains, visual experiences, and so on) in machines; work that has already resulted in a provisional patent application from Princeton University...
Frontiers in Robotics and AI February 7, 2018 Gabriel Axel Montes 6 citations
Virtual reality (VR) technology is currently seeing a surge of interest in industry, academia, and the public. Myriad developments are already underway, aiming to bring the technology directly to users\nin ways that offer access to rich virtual multisensory experiences. The immersivity that VR offers is enabled by the brain’s constraints on processing bodily self-consciousness (BSC), which...
Frontiers in Robotics and AI January 26, 2018 James A. Reggia, Garrett E. Katz, Gregory P. Davis 41 citations
While the concept of a conscious machine is intriguing, producing such a machine remains controversial and challenging. Here, we describe how our work on creating a humanoid cognitive robot that learns to perform tasks via imitation learning relates to this issue. Our discussion is divided into three parts. First, we summarize our previous framework for advancing the understanding of the nature...
Frontiers in Robotics and AI 2018 Lorenzo Cominelli, Daniele Mazzei, Danilo Emilio De Rossi
A socially intelligent robot must be capable to extract meaningful information in real time from the social environment and react accordingly with coherent human-like behavior. Moreover, it should be able to internalize this information, to reason on it at a higher level, build its own opinions independently, and then automatically bias the decision-making according to its unique experience. In...
Frontiers in Robotics and AI 2018 Riccardo Manzotti, Antonio Chella
Recently, there has been considerable interest and effort to the possibility to design and implement conscious robots, i.e., the chance that robots may have subjective experiences. Typical approaches as the global workspace, information integration, enaction, cognitive mechanisms, embodiment, i.e., the Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Consciousness, henceforth, GOFAC, share the same conceptual...
Frontiers in Robotics and AI 2018 Camilo Miguel Signorelli
The idea of machines overcoming humans can be intrinsically related to conscious machines. Surpassing humans would mean replicating, reaching and exceeding key distinctive properties of human beings, for example, high-level cognition associated with conscious perception. However, can computers be compared with humans? Can computers become conscious? Can computers outstrip human capabilities?...
Frontiers in Robotics and AI 2018 Thomas Metzinger
This article explores promising points of contact between philosophy and the expanding field of virtual reality research. Aiming at an interdisciplinary audience, it proposes a series of new research targets by presenting a range of concrete examples characterized by high theoretical relevance and heuristic fecundity. Among these examples are conscious experience itself, "Bayesian" and social...
Frontiers in Robotics and AI November 13, 2017 Michael S A Graziano
The purpose of the attention schema theory is to explain how an information-processing device, the brain, arrives at the claim that it possesses a non-physical, subjective awareness and assigns a high degree of certainty to that extraordinary claim. The theory does not address how the brain might actually possess a non-physical essence. It is not a theory that deals in the non-physical. It is...