A cognitive robot with reconfigurable mind for studying theories of ambiguity resolution

Abstract

Presents the conceptual design of a cognitive robot for investigating issues in ambiguity resolution. The robot will be intelligent, mobile, and anthropomorphic. It is envisioned that the robot will provide an alternative for studying cognition, providing a useful methodology complementing more traditional experimental methods. The ambiguity resolution will be studied in spoken natural language understanding, context driven active robot vision, memory system, and robot reasoning and actuation. Beyond the immediate goal of this research of creating and testing multi-modal theories of ambiguity resolution this project is concerned with validating the methodological idea of using such robots as basic experimental tools for research in the cognitive sciences and for helping to integrate together the research of different cognitive sciences.