Perception of Time in Actions: Equipping Robots with Temporal Cognition

Time perception is a fundamental capacity of autonomous living biological and computational systems that plays a key role in the development of intelligence. In particular, time is important for encoding, revisiting and exploiting experiences (knowing), for making plans to accomplish timely goals at certain moments (doing), for maintaining the identity of self over time despite changing contexts (being). In this regard, our main aim in this project is to equip robots with a sense of time, which remains unexplored in the context of autonomous artificial systems.