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 are key attributes of what must be perceived by an autonomous robotic agent in
order to effectively interact with novel objects. Historically, the concept derives from the …

Affordances describe the possibilities for an agent to perform actions with an object. While
the significance of the affordance concept has been previously studied from varied …

When robots work alongside humans for performing collaborative tasks, they need to be
able to anticipate human's future actions and plan appropriate actions. The tasks we …

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 …

In this paper, we show that through self-interaction and self-observation, an
anthropomorphic robot equipped with a range camera can learn object affordances and use …

Abstract Objects in human environments support various functionalities which govern how
people interact with their environments in order to perform tasks. In this work, we discuss …

The concept of affordances, introduced in psychology by JJ Gibson, has recently attracted
interest in the development of cognitive systems in autonomous robotics. In earlier work …

In this paper, we tackle the problem of multimodal learning for autonomous robots.
Autonomous robots interacting with humans in an evolving environment need the ability to …

Affordance refers to the perception of possible actions allowed by an object. Despite its
relevance to human–computer interaction, no existing theory explains the mechanisms that …