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Mental Robots

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The term ‘mental robot’ is used here to include all robots that, besides mechanical motion and task dexterity, have embedded (in one or the other degree) human-like mental (brain) features. This chapter introduces at a conceptual level the five principal human-like mental capabilities of advanced modern robots, namely cognition, intelligence, autonomy, consciousness, and conscience, and provides a short account of robot learning and attention which are particular cognitive and intelligent functions. The capability of a mental robot to learn, to think and to develop, within its surrounding world, determines its working, behavioral, effectiveness, and living capabilities.

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    The mechanical capabilities of robots (medical, assistive, social, etc) are studied separately by robot mechanics and control.

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Tzafestas, S.G. (2016). Mental Robots. In: Roboethics. Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, vol 79. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21714-7_12

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