Exploratory Workshop on Cognitive Robotics and Control

认知机器人--可以说是会自己思考的机器人--在不久的将来出现在科幻小说中。它们在日常琐事（如洗衣）、危险职业（如扫雷）和护理（如护理老人）方面取代人类。考虑到我们并不完全了解我们自己的思想和大脑的运作方式，我们如何建造这样的机器呢？过去几年对机器人、人工智能、哲学和神经科学的研究使我们深入了解了在人工系统中复制人类行为的能力。机器人看起来更逼真，计算机程序挖掘数据库以寻找新的药物，我们区分认知和意识，成像技术正在绘制大脑中的路径。机器人不再是预先编程或纯粹对环境作出反应的机器人。机器人可以执行常规操作，并在熟悉的情况下对干扰做出反应。然而，在复杂的任务和不同的环境中，他们失败了，而人类成功了。人类强大的技能表现出认知控制，其中潜在过程中的自我认识和自我适应导致了对环境的灵活性和适应性。一个2 1/2天的研讨会，提出了研究认知机器人和认知控制。现在是领先的和未来的英国研究人员与来自美国和其他欧共体国家的研究人员会面的时候了，他们将致力于研究下一代机器人的基本原理，这些机器人将寻求拥有认知和认知控制。这项工作还可以通过提供人工测试对象来帮助我们了解我们自己的大脑是如何运作的。该研讨会将有助于将英国置于认知机器人研究的中心。它将促进国际合作，并为这一令人兴奋的领域的研究制定议程。机器人将越来越频繁地进入我们的日常生活，因此如果要以可接受的方式充分利用它们的潜力，这项研究至关重要。

Cognitive robots - robots that may be said to think for themselves - appear in science fiction in the not too distant future. They replace humans in mundane chores (e.g. laundry), hazardous occupations (e.g. mine clearing) and caring (e.g. nursing the elderly). Considering that we do not fully understand the workings of our own mind and brain, how can we build such machines? The last few years of research into Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy and Neuroscience have given insights into our ability to replicate human behaviour in artificial systems. Androids are appearing more lifelike, computer programs mine databases for new pharmaceutical drugs, we distinguish between cognition versus consciousness and imaging techniques are mapping the pathways in the brain. No longer are robots constructed preprogrammed or purely reactive to their environment. Robots can perform routine operations and react to disturbances in familiar situations. However, in complex tasks and varied environments they fail whilst humans succeed. A human's robust skills exhibit cognitive control where self-knowledge and self-adaptation in the underlying processes result in flexibility and adaptability to our environments. A 2 1/2 day workshop is proposed to examine cognitive robots and cognitive control. Now is the time for leading and future UK researchers to meet with researchers from the US and other EC countries to work on the principles underlying the next generation of robots that seek to possess cognition and cognitive control. This work may also help us understand how our own mind functions by providing artificial test subjects. This workshop will help place the UK in the centre of cognitive robotics research. It will facilitate international collaboration and set the agenda for research in this exciting field. Robots will enter our daily lives with increasing frequency so this research is vital if their potential is to be fully utilised in an acceptable manner.