Awareness in Robotics
An Early Perspective from the Viewpoint of the EIC Pathfinder Challenge “Awareness Inside”
Cosimo Della Santina (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), TU Delft - Learning & Autonomous Control)
Carlos Hernandez Corbato (TU Delft - Robust Robot Systems)
Burak Sisman (TU Delft - Robust Robot Systems)
Luis A. Leiva (Université du Luxembourg)
Ioannis Arapakis (Telefónica Research)
Michalis Vakalellis (AEGIS IT RESEARCH GMBH)
Jean Vanderdonckt (Université Catholique de Louvain)
Luis Fernando D’Haro (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
Guido Manzi (Alien Technology Transfer)
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Abstract
While consciousness has been historically a heavily debated topic, awareness had less success in raising the interest of scholars. However, 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 “Awareness Inside” callwithin 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.