Consciousness from Da Vinci's Mechanical knight to a 2020 Robot

A social robot is an artificial intelligence (AI) system that is designed to do interaction with humans and other robots. In the workplace social robots got potential to take over entire job functions such as greeting and basic customer service. A personal robot can help at home to perform things like cook meals with fresh food or. Help to cook by cutting vegetables mixing things. Manage the fridge and ordering food with an algorithm like a mind map to reduce waste. Give snacks and drinks to home guests in a party. Cognitive robots get their goals done by perceiving their environment paying attention to the events that matter planning what to do anticipating the outcome of their actions and the actions of other agents and learning from the resultant interaction through probability concept. They deal with the inherent uncertainty of natural environments by continually learning reasoning and sharing their knowledge with global databases. Robot being able to perceive the world from someone else's view point a cognitive robot can anticipate that person's intended actions and needs. Same applies during direct interaction like robot assisting a surgeon in hospital theatre.