Research on Human Cognition for Biologically Inspired Developments

Abstract

Robotic developments are seen as a next level in technology with intelligent machines, which automate tedious tasks and serve our needs without complaints. But nevertheless, they have to be fair and smart enough to be intuitively of use and safe to handle. But how to implement this kind of intelligence, does it need feelings and emotions, should robots perceive the world as we do as a human role model, how far should the implementation of synthetic consciousness lead and actually, what is needed for consciousness in that context? Additionally in Human-Robot-Interaction research, science mainly makes use of the tool phenomenography, which is exclusively subjective, so how to make it qualify for Artificial Intelligence? These are the heading aspects of this chapter for conducting research in the field of social robotics and suggesting a conscious and cognitive model for smart and intuitive interacting robots, guided by biomimetics.

Conceptualizing Opportunities and Challenges Relevant to the Inclusion of Humanoid Service Robots in the Context of COVID-19

“…Their capabilities in registering habits and attitudes of the humans that they interact with are known to affect the perception of intimacy, privacy, bonding, and emotional support in those individuals [7][8][9]. In addition to looking and moving like humans, recent technological progress also equips SR with human-like learning and creating abilities [10][11][12].…”

Call to Redefine Human-Robot Interaction: From Social Robots to Gun Shooting Humanoids

“…Perhaps the discussion would not be complete by including neither the appearance nor the movement, but also the learning and creating abilities. Robots ability to learn quicker than an average human (Rossi & Lee, in press), even the gestures (Ehlers & Brama, 2016) and the social cues by often mimicking the Human-Human-Interaction (Wehle, Weidemann, & Boblan, 2017), needs to be accounted, too.…”

Socially Believable Robots

“…Artificial emotions [29], can also act as a control mechanism to understand robots perception of its surroundings. Numerous architectures have been proposed for introduction of artificial emotions but the most popular ones are based on bio-inspired models that include ethology, structure and psychology [30]. As mentioned in the previous section, there are several ways in which a robot can be made to express its emotions.…”