1. Cognitive Robotics Candice Harris

2. Introduction Definition Cognitive Robotics (CR) – is a concern with endowing robots with high-level cognitive capabilities to enable the achievement of complex goals in complex environments using limited computational resources. Cognitive Robotics capabilities include Perception processing Anticipation Planning Reasoning about other agents Reasoning about their own mental states.

3. Cognition in Humans versus Robots Cognition in humans is exhibited through the characteristics of “short and long term memory, categorizing and conceptualizing, reasoning, planning, problem solving, learning, and creativity. A cognitive system employs a combination of artificial intelligence techniques within a structure derived from human psychology in an attempt to produce the above listed characteristics. A cognitive robot is an embodied cognitive system implemented on a robot

4. Examples of Robots Kitano’s PINO “The Humanoid Robot” (on left) http://www.symbio.jst.go.jp/~tmatsui/pinodesign.htm Honda’s ASIMO “The Humanoid Robot” (on right) http://world.honda.com/ASIMO/

5. Example Vanderbilt University Cognitive Robotics Lab http://eecs.vanderbilt.edu/CIS/CRL/index.shtml

6. Questions