How to teach robots to understand human emotions and intentions? The meeting as part of the Interdisciplinary Scientific Seminar at WUST was with prof. Peter Gärdenfors – world-famous cognitive science expert from Lund University.

He gave a lecture entitled: "How to socialize with robots”, which took place on 14 December at the Auditorium of Wrocław University of Science and Technology.

Peter Gärdenfors is professor of cognitive science at the University of Lund, Sweden. Internationally, he is one of Sweden's most notable philosophers. Gärdenfors is a recipient of the Gad Rausing Prize, he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities and in 2009 he became a member of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

He is member of Deutsche Akademie für Naturforscher, Academia Europaea. He was a member of the Prize Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2011-2017.

Peter Gärdenfors' research covers several areas: Belief revision, decision theory, philosophy of science, concept formation, conceptual spaces, cognitive semantics, and the evolution of cognition and language.

At the Wrocław Tech, prof. Gärdenfors talked about: how a robot could understand the emotions, the attention and the intentions of humans, how this could possibly be implemented in robotic systems.