Steps towards artificial consciousness: A robot's knowledge of its own body

AAAI Fall Symposium - Technical Report

Volumn FS-07-01, Issue , 2007, Pages 117-122

  Parisi, Domenico ^a   Mirolli, Marco ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL CONSCIOUSNESS; MULTI-MODALITY; PHYSICAL OBJECTS; PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE; TECHNICAL REPORTS;

ROBOTICS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 51849115034     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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