Are Robots Embodied? Tom Ziemke Department of Computer Science, University of Skövde, Sweden, tom@ida.his.se Abstract Embodiment has become an important concept in many areas of cognitive science. There are, however, very different notions of exactly what embodiment is and what kind of body is required for what kind of embodied cognition. Hence, while many would agree that humans are embodied cogn

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Microsoft Word - introduction 1 Introduction: Why ÒEpigenetic RoboticsÓ? Jordan Zlatev and Christian Balkenius Background During the last few years we have witnessed the mutual rapprochement of two traditionally very different fields of study: developmental psychology and robotics. This has come with the realization by large parts of the cognitive science community (e.g. Ziemke, in press) that tru

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Microsoft Word - Humanoid Motion Description Langauge R20.doc Abstract In this paper we propose a description language for specifying motions for humanoid robots and for allowing humanoid robots to acquire motor skills. Locomotion greatly increases our ability to interact with our environments, which in turn increases our mental abilities. This principle also applies to humanoid robots. However, t

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Why it is important to build robots capable of doing science Răzvan V. Florian Center for Cognitive and Neural Studies (Coneural) Str. Saturn 24, 3400 Cluj-Napoca, Romania florian@coneural.org Abstract Science, like any other cognitive activity, is grounded in the sensorimotor interaction of our bodies with the environment. Human em- bodiment thus constrains the class of scien- tific concepts and

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value_epi.dvi Novelty and Reinforcement Learning in the Value System of Developmental Robots Xiao Huang and John Weng Computer Science and Engineering Department Michigan State University East Lansing, MI, 48824 Abstract The value system of a developmental robot signals the occurrence of salient sensory in- puts, modulates the mapping from sensory in- puts to action outputs, and evaluates candi- d

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Microsoft Word - Itakura.cba.doc Sense of Self in Baby Chimpanzees Itakura, S., Izumi, A., Myowa, M., Tomonaga, M., Tanaka, M. & Matsuzawa, T. Kyoto University Abstract Philippe Rochat and his colleague tentatively proposed that young infantsÕ propensity to engage in self- perception and systematic exploration of the perceptual consequences of their own action plays and is probably at the origin o

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Microsoft Word - epirob2002-Andrea Kulakov and Georgi Stojanov.doc Structures, inner values, hierarchies and stages: essentials for developmental robot architectures Andrea Kulakov *, Georgi Stojanov** Computer Science Institute Faculty of Electrical Engineering 1000 Skopje, MACEDONIA kulak@etf.ukim.edu.mk*, geos@etf.ukim.edu.mk** Abstract In this paper we try to locate the essential components ne

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Social Situatedness: Vygotsky and Beyond Jessica Lindblom & Tom Ziemke Dept. of Computer Science University of Skövde Box 408 54128 Skövde, Sweden { jessica|tom} @ida.his.se Abstract The concept of ‘ social situatedness’ , i.e. the idea that the development of individual intell igence requires a social (and cultural) embedding, has recently received much attention in cognitive science and artifici

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vision.dvi Better Vision Through Manipulation Giorgio Metta∗,∗∗ Paul Fitzpatrick∗∗ ∗LIRA-Lab, DIST University of Genova Viale F. Causa, 13 16145 Genova, Italy ∗∗MIT AI Lab 200 Technology Square Cambridge, MA 02139 US Abstract For the purposes of manipulation, we would like to know what parts of the environment are physically coherent ensembles – that is, which parts will move together, and which a

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Microsoft Word - summary.cba.doc Introduction: The Second International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics Christopher G. Prince 1. Background In concluding their summary of papers from the First Epigenetic Robotics workshop, Zlatev and Balkenius (2001) considered a number of questions. First, were the issues of the embodiment, situatedness, and development that are most adequate for epigenetic robot

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Schlesinger.Second A lesson from robotics: Modeling infants as autonomous agents Matthew Schlesinger Department of Psychology Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL 62901 USA matthews@siu.edu Abstract While computational models are playing an increasingly important role in developmental psychology, at least one lesson from robotics is still being learned: modeling epigenetic processes often r

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TV.eps (Converted)-1 Can a Robot Hear Music? Can a Robot Dance? Can a Robot Tell What it Knows or Intends to Do? Can it Feel Pride or Shame in Company? -- Questions of the Nature of Human Vitality Colwyn Trevarthen, Department of Psychology The University of Edinburg Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, Third Revised Edition, 1969 Robot: Czeck, from robotiti, to work, drudge. Related to German arbei

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Microsoft Word - Uller1.cba.doc When 9-month-olds go ‘wow’ and ‘yuk’: Understanding other people’s desires Claudia Uller The Institute of Cognitive Science The University of Louisiana at Lafayette uller@louisiana.edu Abstract Young children perform well on a wide range of tasks involving the attribution of goals/desires. For instance, two- and three-year old children are told that a boy wants to f

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Microsoft Word - Warnett.cba.doc Unsupervised navigation using an economy principle Lawrence Warnett & Brendan McGonigle* Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience & Intelligent Systems University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, Scotland ejua48@holyrood.ed.ac.uk * Principal investigator: we are grateful to Medical Research Council for their support. Abstract We describe robot navigation learning based on self

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Developmental Robots – A New Paradigm Juyang Weng Yilu Zhang Department of Computer Science and Engineering Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824 {weng, zhangyil}@cse.msu.edu Abstract It has been proved to be extremely challeng- ing for humans to program a robot to such a sufficient degree that it acts properly in a typical unknown human environment. This is especially true for a humano

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Global Dynamics: a new concept for design of dynamical behavior Tomoyuki Yamamoto∗ and Yasuo Kuniyoshi† Humanoid Interaction Laboratory, Electrotechnical Laboratory, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) 1-1-4 Umezono, Tsukuba, 305-8568 Japan (t-yama , kuniyosh)@etl.go.jp Abstract The global dynamics, a novel concept for de- sign of human/humanoid behavior is prop

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A Dynamical Analysis of Kneading Using a Motion Capture Device Mamiko Abe∗ Tomoyuki Yamamoto∗∗ Tsutomu Fujinami∗∗ *Knowledge Media Laboratory, Corporate Research and Development Center, Toshiba Corporation 1, Komukai Toshiba-cho, Saiwai-ku, Kawasaki-shi, 212-8582 JAPAN mamiko.abe@toshiba.co.jp **School of Knowledge Science, Jpan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Tatsunokuchi Ishikawa, 9

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