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Emotions and Sapient Robots

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Toward Artificial Sapience

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In this chapter we review some issues related to emotions and their role in reasoning and behavior. We propose complex systems methods to design control architectures for sapient robots with an embedded emotion model.

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García-Vega, V.A., Mora-Basáñez, C.R.d. (2008). Emotions and Sapient Robots. In: Mayorga, R.V., Perlovsky, L.I. (eds) Toward Artificial Sapience. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-999-6_14

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