Naveen Sundar Govindarajulu
Papers
9
Total Citations
141
H-Index
5
About
Naveen Sundar Govindarajulu is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of machine ethics, artificial intelligence, and formal logic, whose work addresses one of the most consequential challenges of our era: building robots and AI systems capable of genuine moral reasoning. His most celebrated contribution, "Real Robots that Pass Human Tests of Self-Consciousness" (2015, 84 citations), demonstrated that self-awareness is not merely a philosophical curiosity but a prerequisite for moral competence in machines — a finding that reframed how researchers approach robot cognition. Alongside collaborators, he has argued that ethical regulation must be architecturally embedded within robotic operating systems rather than imposed externally, and has developed formal frameworks for automated ethical argument adjudication in multi-agent environments. His work extends into virtue ethics for machines, self-sacrifice modeling, and hypergraphical inferential semantics for ethically charged language. More recently, Govindarajulu has explored argument-based inductive logics and affect-driven planning for metacognitive robots, pushing toward artificial general intelligence. Collectively, his research blends rigorous formal methods with deep philosophical grounding, making him a distinctive and important voice in the rapidly evolving field of machine ethics and cognitive robotics.
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Top Papers
- 1Real robots that pass human tests of self-consciousness84 citations · 2015
- 2Ethical Regulation of Robots Must Be Embedded in Their Operating Systems16 citations · 2015
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- 5Argument-based inductive logics, with coverage of compromised perception5 citations · 2024
- 6PERI.2 Goes to PreSchool and Beyond, in Search of AGI5 citations · 2023
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- 8Affect-based Planning for a Meta-Cognitive Robot Sculptor: First Steps3 citations · 2023
- 9Toward the Engineering of Virtuous Machines2 citations · 2019