Awareness in Robotics: An Early Perspective from the Viewpoint of the EIC Pathfinder Challenge ``Awareness Inside''. Della Santina, C., Corbato, C. H., Sisman, B., Leiva, L. A., Arapakis, I., Vakalellis, M., Vanderdonckt, J., D'Haro, L. F., Manzi, G., Becchio, C., Elamrani, A., Alirezaei, M., Castellano, G., Dimarogonas, D. V., Ghosh, A., Haesaert, S., Soudjani, S., Stroeve, S., Verschure, P., Bacciu, D., Deroy, O., Bahrami, B., Gallicchio, C., Hauert, S., Sanz, R., Lanillos, P., Iacca, G., Sigg, S., Gasulla, M., Steels, L., & Sierra, C. In Secchi, C. & Marconi, L., editors, European Robotics Forum 2024, pages 108–113, Cham, 2024. Springer Nature Switzerland.
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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.
@InProceedings{10.1007/978-3-031-76424-0_20,
author="Della Santina, Cosimo
and Corbato, Carlos Hernandez
and Sisman, Burak
and Leiva, Luis A.
and Arapakis, Ioannis
and Vakalellis, Michalis
and Vanderdonckt, Jean
and D'Haro, Luis Fernando
and Manzi, Guido
and Becchio, Cristina
and Elamrani, A{\"i}da
and Alirezaei, Mohsen
and Castellano, Ginevra
and Dimarogonas, Dimos V.
and Ghosh, Arabinda
and Haesaert, Sofie
and Soudjani, Sadegh
and Stroeve, Sybert
and Verschure, Paul
and Bacciu, Davide
and Deroy, Ophelia
and Bahrami, Bahador
and Gallicchio, Claudio
and Hauert, Sabine
and Sanz, Ricardo
and Lanillos, Pablo
and Iacca, Giovanni
and Sigg, Stephan
and Gasulla, Manel
and Steels, Luc
and Sierra, Carles",
editor="Secchi, Cristian
and Marconi, Lorenzo",
title="Awareness in Robotics: An Early Perspective from the Viewpoint of the EIC Pathfinder Challenge ``Awareness Inside''",
booktitle="European Robotics Forum 2024",
year="2024",
publisher="Springer Nature Switzerland",
address="Cham",
pages="108--113",
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.",
isbn="978-3-031-76424-0"
}

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