The field of cognitive robotics attempts to design embodied artificial in­telligence systems through inspiration from human psychology. Often in ro­botics it is assumed that, because hard drives are capable of holding massive amounts of data, a robot should store all information it comes across for use in generating future behaviors.

This work shows how this brute-force approach to robotic memory manage­ment is flawed and proposes a memory management system based on the principles of John Andersons ACT-R cognitive architecture.
The creation and implementation of this memory system is...