Why Robots Must Have Synthetic Emotions? The Role of Emotions in the Artificial Cognitive Systems

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first_page settings Order Article Reprints Font Type: Arial Georgia Verdana Font Size: Aa Aa Aa Line Spacing:    Column Width:    Background: Open AccessAbstract Why Robots Must Have Synthetic Emotions? The Role of Emotions in the Artificial Cognitive Systems † by Jordi Vallverdú Philosophy Departmet, Fac. Lletres, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra (BCN) Catalonia, Spain † Presented at the IS4SI 2017 Summit DIGITALISATION FOR A SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY, Gothenburg, Sweden, 12–16 June 2017. Proceedings 2017, 1(3), 272; https://doi.org/10.3390/IS4SI-2017-04088 Published: 9 June 2016 (This article belongs to the Proceedings of Proceedings of the IS4SI 2017 Summit DIGITALISATION FOR A SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY, Gothenburg, Sweden, 12–16 June 2017.) Download Download PDF Download PDF with Cover Download XML Versions Notes Not only we are attending to the exponential implementation of robotic platforms into several fields but also has arisen a public debate about the several challenges of this robot revolution. Among the long list of possible debates, there is one especially important: do must robots have emotions? Beyond the classic approaches related to affective computing which help to design better Human-Robot Interactions (henceforth, HRI), the presence of emotions into robotic systems is considered in a new light. Taking into consideration artificial cognitive architectures, should emotions, or a kind of synthetic emotions, be a fundamental part of these machines? We know that emotional values and mechanisms determine and shape the whole experience and rationing human processes, and it could affect/help/modify robotic ones. From an individual or a social perspective, the emotional skills of our robots can define a new scenario for the HRI processes as well as for the internal robotic revolution. From three different perspectives and disciplines, Anthropoogy, Engineering and Cognitive Philosophy, we will discuss these ideas in more detail, thanks to the collaborations of Lola Cañamero (University of Hertfordshire, UK), Rodolphe Gelin (Softbankrobotics, France), and Kathleen Richardson (De Montfort University, Leicester, UK). Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. © 2017 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Share and Cite MDPI and ACS Style Vallverdú, J. Why Robots Must Have Synthetic Emotions? The Role of Emotions in the Artificial Cognitive Systems. Proceedings 2017, 1, 272. https://doi.org/10.3390/IS4SI-2017-04088 AMA Style Vallverdú J. Why Robots Must Have Synthetic Emotions? The Role of Emotions in the Artificial Cognitive Systems. Proceedings. 2017; 1(3):272. https://doi.org/10.3390/IS4SI-2017-04088 Chicago/Turabian Style Vallverdú, Jordi. 2017. "Why Robots Must Have Synthetic Emotions? The Role of Emotions in the Artificial Cognitive Systems" Proceedings 1, no. 3: 272. https://doi.org/10.3390/IS4SI-2017-04088 Find Other Styles Note that from the first issue of 2016, MDPI journals use article numbers instead of page numbers. See further details here. Article Metrics No No Article Access Statistics Multiple requests from the same IP address are counted as one view.