Development of a robot with a sense of self,” The

Abstract – This paper describes our efforts to develop a robot with a sense of self using a multiagent-based cognitive architecture and control with three distinctive memory systems, namely (1) spatio-temporal short-term memory, (2) procedural / declarative / episodic long-term memory and (3) a task-oriented adaptive working memory based on psychological and computational neuroscience models. Such a robot may be called a cognitive robot. Cognitive robots share a number of key features with conscious machines. We explore the interface between cognitive robots and conscious machines through an internal model called the Self Agent. Index terms – cognitive robot, machine consciousness, self agent, adaptive working memory, cognitive control I