Active vision means that visual perception not only depends closely on the subject's own
movements, but that these movements actually contribute to the visual perceptual …

Some issues concerning requirements for architectures, mechanisms, ontologies and forms
of representation in intelligent human-like or animal-like robots are discussed. The tautology …

A Valley in One's Sense of Affinity The mathematical term monotonically increasing function
describes a relation in which the function y= fx () increases continuously with the variable x …

The design of robots that interact autonomously with the environment and exhibit complex
behaviours is an open challenge that can benefit from understanding what makes living …

Brain-machine interfaces (BMIs, or braincomputer interfaces, BCIs) have caused a lot of
excitement in the past few years; they promise to make the lame walk, the mute talk, the …

The Artificial Intelligence (AI) revolution foretold of during the 1960s is well underway in the
second decade of the twenty first century. Its period of phenomenal growth likely lies ahead …

In recent years the mushrooming power, functionality and ubiquity of computers and the
Internet have outstripped early forecasts about technology's rate of advancement and …

The goals of cognitive robotics are to better understand cognition through the construction of
physical artifacts, and to create practical systems that demonstrate cognitive capabilities. I …

The embodied cognition paradigm emphasizes that both bodies and brains combine to
produce complex behaviors, in contrast to the traditional view that the only seat of …

The past two decades have witnessed a growing interest not only in understanding sensory
biology, but also in applying the principles gleaned from these studies to the design of new …