There is a growing trend in robotics for implementing behavioural mechanisms based on
human psychology, such as the processes associated with thinking. Semantic knowledge …

Augmented humanity (AH) is a term that has been mentioned in several research papers.
However, these papers differ in their definitions of AH. The number of publications dealing …

The ability to achieve oneʼs goals is a defining characteristic of intelligent behaviour. A
great many existing theories, systems and research programmes address the problems …

Robots, in order to properly interact with people and effectively perform the requested tasks,
should have a deep and specific knowledge of the environment they live in. Current …

Infants learning about their environment are confronted with many stimuli of different
modalities. Therefore, a crucial problem is how to discover which stimuli are related, for …

In daily conversation, we sometimes observe a deictic interaction scene that refers to a
region in a space, such as saying¿ please put it over there¿ with pointing. How can such an …

Dialog modeling in robotics suffers from lack of generalizability, due to the fact that the
dialog is heavily influenced by the tasks the robot is able to perform. We introduce …

There are many different approaches to building a system that can engage in autonomous
mental development. In this paper, we present an approach based on what we term self …

Environment attributes are perceived or remembered differently according to the perspective
used. In this study, two different perspectives, a survey perspective and a route perspective …

In this paper we present an account of the problems faced by a mobile robot given an
incomplete tour of an unknown environment, and introduce a collection of techniques which …