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The intelligent robots that appear in the movies have little relation to real life, although the tendency in current robotics to create machines that are as independent as possible is a fact. ?The robot has to be aware of what it is doing and, more and more, be capable of improving its behaviour, its learning?. This, according to Mr Basilio Sierra, leading the Robotics and Autonomous Systems Group at the Computer Sciences Faculty of University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), sums up the tendency known as cognitive robotics, and his team aims to make a contribution in this direction.Autonomous robotics deals with various materials simultaneously: ?On the one hand, the sensors that a robot has (cameras, laser rays, ultrasound, infrared, etc.) to perceive the world and the interpretations of that perception. On the other hand, given the motor and the ability for movement, the robot is mobile.? To respond to such diverse needs as these, Mr Sierra leads a multidisciplinary research team, made up of computer scien