Cognitive robotics views animal cognition as a starting point for the development of robotic information processing, as opposed to more traditional Artificial Intelligence techniques.
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I would agree with your point that 'computers' lack this, however, I should point out that the rapidly growing field of cognitive robotics (of which I see myself as a part) is growing in importance precisely because of this.
In the first episode, when Astro Boy is initially started up, he acts helplessly and infantile but learns to harbour his emotions over time. This deliberately reflected a popular research field in Japan called 'cognitive robotics' that approaches ...
Artificial consciousness (AC), also known as machine consciousness (MC) or synthetic consciousness, is a field related to artificial intelligence and cognitive robotics whose aim is to define that which would have to be synthesized were ...
 See also: Robotics, Artificial intelligence, Agent, Knowledge, Percept
  
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