Motivated AI
Designing (Ro)Bots with Soul
Explainable and Safe
Research & Development Lab

While today's AI systems are highly effective at recognizing patterns and solving cognitive problems, they remain fundamentally limited in important respects: they lack emotion, social motivation, and the capacity for empathy. These are not just optional features—they are central to what makes human minds flexible, socially intelligent, and meaningfully self-regulating. An AI that only calculates, but doesn’t have a "soul", cannot truly be called human-like (Beyond AI: The Birth of the Artificial Soul | Prof. Dr. Markus Quirin | TEDxPFH Goettingen - YouTube).