Awareness in robotics: An early perspective from the viewpoint of the EIC Pathfinder Challenge "Awareness Inside''
Abstract
Consciousness has been historically a heavily debated topic in engineering, science, and philosophy. On the contrary, awareness had less success in raising the interest of scholars in the past. However, things are changing as more and more researchers are getting interested in answering questions concerning what awareness is and how it can be artificially generated. The landscape is rapidly evolving, with multiple voices and interpretations of the concept being conceived and techniques being developed. The goal of this paper is to summarize and discuss the ones among these voices connected with projects funded by the EIC Pathfinder Challenge called ``Awareness Inside'', a nonrecurring call for proposals within Horizon Europe designed specifically for fostering research on natural and synthetic awareness. In this perspective, we dedicate special attention to challenges and promises of applying synthetic awareness in robotics, as the development of mature techniques in this new field is expected to have a special impact on generating more capable and trustworthy embodied systems.
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@article{arxiv.2402.09030,
title = {Awareness in robotics: An early perspective from the viewpoint of the EIC Pathfinder Challenge "Awareness Inside''},
author = {Cosimo Della Santina and Carlos Hernandez Corbato and Burak Sisman and Luis A. Leiva and Ioannis Arapakis and Michalis Vakalellis and Jean Vanderdonckt and Luis Fernando D'Haro and Guido Manzi and Cristina Becchio and Aïda Elamrani and Mohsen Alirezaei and Ginevra Castellano and Dimos V. Dimarogonas and Arabinda Ghosh and Sofie Haesaert and Sadegh Soudjani and Sybert Stroeve and Paul Verschure and Davide Bacciu and Ophelia Deroy and Bahador Bahrami and Claudio Gallicchio and Sabine Hauert and Ricardo Sanz and Pablo Lanillos and Giovanni Iacca and Stephan Sigg and Manel Gasulla and Luc Steels and Carles Sierra},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.09030},
year = {2024}
}