Artificial Mental Imagery in Cognitive Robots Interaction

Cognitive Robotics is a new and effective approach for the modelling and better understanding of human cognitive functions and to create effective human-robot interaction. This article reviews the recent literature that exploit of the concept of mental imagery as a fundamental cognitive capability to enhance the robot´s ability to interact with the physical and social environment. Then, three future interdisciplinary research directions are identified and discussed, highlighting the new collaborative research themes for the definition of a new class of imagery enabled robots that can overcome some limitation of the current technology, especially in its application in social contexts.