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Cognitive Robotics:
How to Tell a Robot from a Human?
29 May 2007, Tuesday, 7pm
Dr Maurice Grinberg
Associate Professor
New Bulgarian University
This lecture will cover recent progress in the attempts to achieve animal and human cognitive performance in robots. Special attention will be paid to the variety of modelling approaches considering their strengths and weaknesses. This will be illustrated by using the problems and achievements of the MindRaces project. The focus of this project is to build robots capable not only to react to events in the environment but also to anticipate the future and act accordingly. Demonstrations with the Aibo robot will be performed showing the progress of the NBU team in equipping a robot with an analogy making artificial mind. After the end of the lecture the audience will have the opportunity to play with our robots.
Presentation (PDF, 3.4MB, in Bulgarian)
Video recording of this lecture (on Digital World's web site)
more about the lecturer
 Maurice Grinberg has a PhD in theoretical nuclear physics. Since 1999 he has been working in the field of cognitive sciences in the Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science at the New Bulgarian University. His research interests are related to cognitive modelling in decision making, analogy, memory and multi-agent systems, and experimental work in experimental economics. He participates in several European projects – MindRaces, Rascalli, Welkom, and Analogy – aimed at the understanding of human cognition and its application in artificial cognitive systems, e.g. robots and intelligent software agents. He teaches several courses like Neural networks, Cognitive modelling, Introduction to the dynamical system approach to cognitive science, etc. |