Cognitive robotics (CR) is concerned with endowing robots with high-level cognitive capabilities to enable the achievement of complex goals in complex environments using limited computational resources.
Robotic cognitive capabilities include perception processing, attention allocation, anticipation, planning, reasoning about other agents, and reasoning about their own mental states. Robotic cognition embodies the behaviour of intelligent agents in the physical world (or a virtual world, in the case of simulated CR).A cognitive robot should exhibit:
- knowledge
- beliefs
- preferences
- goals
- informational attitudes
- motivational attitudes (observing, communicating, revising beliefs, planning)
Cognitive robotics involves the application and integration of various artificial intelligence disciplines, such as knowledge representation, automated reasoning and planning. It also involves the use of agent programming languages for defining transitions between mental states.
A number of different methodologies can be adopted within cognitive robotics, including not only the approach of classical symbolic AI – emphasizing symbolic reasoning and representation – but also more biologically-inspired approaches that draw on neuroscience and studies of animal behaviour.
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The word robotics was derived from the word robot, which was introduced to the public by Czech writer Karel Čapek in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), which premiered in 1921.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word robotics was first used in print by Isaac Asimov, in his science fiction short story "Liar!", published in May 1941 in Astounding Science Fiction. Asimov was unaware that he was coining the term; since the science and technology of electrical devices is electronics, he assumed robotics already referred to the science and technology of robots. In some of Asimov's other works, he states that the first use of the word robotics was in his short story Runaround (Astounding Science Fiction, March 1942). However, the word robotics appears in "Liar!"