iCub is an Open Source Robotics platform. After you build your iCub maybe you consider OpenCog for your AI needs?
Cheers.
Worldpeace,
Ben

Jeff Hawkins, Numenta: “Prospects and Problems of Cortical Theory” This is the 10th and final talk given at the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Inaugural Symposium UC Berkeley, October 7, 2005 Audio/Visual: sound, color Language: english Keywords: Theoretical Neuroscience; Cortex; Brain; AI, Memory; Hierarchy; Neural Networks Contact Information: Kilian Koepsell , Redwood Center for Theoretical […]

Where Dr. Henry Markram takes the viewer on a tour de force of that structure that gives rise to the phenomena of human intelligence.
IBM Research’s Almaden Institute Conference on Cognitive Computing. Markram discusses microcolumns in the brain, and shows several video animations of computer models of neurons communicating in a microcolumn. His model includes 10,000 […]

Eliezer Yudkowsky is one of the world’s foremost researchers on Friendly AI and recursive self-improvement. He created the Friendly AI approach to AGI, which emphasizes the importance of the structure of an ethical optimization process and its supergoal, in contrast to the common trend of seeking the right fixed enumeration of ethical rules a moral […]

The Chinese Room argument is a thought experiment and associated arguments designed by John Searle (Searle 1980) to show that a symbol processing machine like a computer can never be properly described as having a “mind” or “understanding”, regardless of how intelligently it may behave.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Room
I’ve had this in tab for about a week now and […]

Great (dated) article on Wolfram’s NKoS by teh invincible Ben Goertzel. Check it ouuuuuuuut …
Speaking of Wolfram, was he at Dana Kulic’s seminar @ MIT this past Monday?
Not a fool, for sure. A bit of a child prodigy, Stephan Wolfram graduated Cal Tech in his teenage years, and began his career as a […]

Henry Markram talks about Blue Brain and the prospects for future large scale neural simulations.
http://lis.epfl.ch/resources/podcast/mp3/TalkingRobots-HenryMarkram.mp3

SUARO has been updated with a couple more articles further explaining the problem of complexity in its relation to AI.
Hope all is well.
Worldpeace,
Ben