Intellectual agents based on a cognitive architecture supporting humanlike social emotionality and creativity

Abstract

Human-friendly virtual and physical collaborative robots, or cobots, will work side-by-side with users as helping minds and hands in a variety of creative cognitive tasks, including design, invention, creation of art, or goal setting in unexpected situations in unpredictable environments. These tasks require autonomous reasoning and engage social-emotional attitudes, because the cobot needs to maintain mutual trust with the team or the user. In addition, the cobot needs to understand the global context to be able to determine its role and specific task in a joint mission. All this can be achieved based on a cognitive architecture, supporting social-emotional and narrative reasoning. A general concept of such architecture is presented here, together with an overview of evaluations of prototypes and potential practical applications.