Tool manipulation is vital for facilitating robots to complete challenging task goals. It requires
reasoning about the desired effect of the task and, thus, properly grasping and manipulating …

In this paper, we consider the influence of Gibson's affordance theory on the design of
robotic agents. Affordance theory (and the ecological approach to agent design in general) …

Robotics is one of the many tools that is making a substantial difference as the world is
experiencing the fourth industrial revolution. To ease control over this engineering marvel …

The concept of affordances appeared in psychology during the late 60s as an alternative
perspective on the visual perception of the environment. It was revolutionary in the intuition …

Affordances capture the relationships between a robot and the environment in terms of the
actions that the robot is able to perform. The notable characteristic of affordance-based …

Inspired by infant development, we propose a three staged developmental framework for an
anthropomorphic robot manipulator. In the first stage, the robot is initialized with a basic …

This article studies algorithms used by a learner to explore high-dimensional structured
sensorimotor spaces such as in tool use discovery. In particular, we consider goal babbling …

Humans can perform a multitude of different actions with their hands (manipulations). In
spite of this, so far there have been only a few attempts to represent manipulation types …

The ability to learn about and efficiently use tools constitutes a desirable property for general
purpose humanoid robots, as it allows them to extend their capabilities beyond the …

The use of hand tools presents a challenge for robot manipulation in part because it calls for
motions requiring continuous force application over a whole trajectory, usually involving …