What Is Cognitive Robotics?

By Angelo Cangelosi and Minoru Asada

What Is Cognitive Robotics? A Developmental Approach explains how robots become truly intelligent by learning, perceiving, acting, and adapting as embodied agents in the real world. Drawing on AI, psychology, and neuroscience, Cangelosi and Asada define cognitive robotics as the fusion of methods and insights from these fields, focused on humanlike and animallike skills from sensorimotor control to reasoning and social interaction. The book traces the field's roots in embodied cognition, grounded representations, and knowledge representation, then shows how anticipation, learning, autonomy, action, perception, and adaptation work together as a single cognitive cycle. Clear, integrative, and rigorously interdisciplinary, this is a concise guide to what sets cognitive robotics apart from generic intelligent robotics, why development matters, and how bioinspired principles translate into robots that understand, collaborate, and improve over time.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FQ3V9FDV
• ISBN13: 9798264053573
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 26 Pages
• Weight: 0.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 7.0" x 10.0"