01 January 2025
While consciousness has been historically a heavily debated topic, awareness had less success in raising the interest of scholars. However, more and more researchers are getting interested in answering questions concerning what awareness is and how it can be artificially generated. The landscape is rapidly evolving, with multiple voices and interpretations of the concept being conceived and techniques being developed.
This work summarizes and discusses the ones among these voices connected with projects funded by the EIC Pathfinder Challenge “Awareness Inside” call designed specifically for fostering research on natural and synthetic awareness. In this perspective, the authors dedicate special attention to challenges and promises of applying synthetic awareness in robotics, as the development of mature techniques in this new field is expected to have a special impact on generating more capable and trustworthy embodied systems.
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