Robotics Review
a new paper from the Foresight Cognitive Systems Project reviews links between research in natural and artificial cognitive systems.
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Robots may seem to be the ultimate embodiment of artificial cognitive systems. The new research review of Foresight Cognitive Systems Project, written by many of the UK's leading researchers in robotics, brings together many of the issues covered in the papers on natural and artificial cognitive systems.
The report, Robotics and Cognition, fills a gap in the original series of Research Reviews. While those reviews did indeed cover many of the underlying research themes of robotics, they did not address the issues involved in bringing together work on, for example, sensors and users interfaces.
Like the disciplines involved in the earlier stages of the project, robotics researchers also wanted to see where they could benefit from a more structured dialogue with the life sciences.
Research in robotics can also teach us something about how natural cognitive systems, including humans, function. For example, several research groups experiment build "artificial insects" to investigate robots as biological models.
Robotics and Cognition was edited by Professor Lionel Tarassenko, physical sciences coordinator of Foresight Cognitive Systems Project and Dr Paul Newman, of the Oxford Robotics Research Group at Oxford University.
while the Office of Science and Technology commissioned the work, the findings are independent of Government and do not constitute Government Policy.