Studies and concepts for social companion robots in therapy and care exist, however, they
often lack the integration of convincing behavioral and social key mechanisms which enable …

This paper describes ideas and initial experiments in embodied imitation using e-puck
robots, developed as part of a project whose aim is to demonstrate the emergence of …

In this paper, we investigate how the interactions of a robot with its environment can be used
to create concepts that are typically represented by verbs in language. Towards this end, we …

The study of imitation and other mechanisms of social learning is an exciting area of
research for all those interested in understanding the origin and the nature of animal …

We consider temporal aspects of self-replication and evolvability–in particular, the massively
asynchronous parallel and distributed nature of living systems. Formal views of self …

The problem of learning a policy, a task representation mapping from world states to actions,
lies at the heart of many robotic applications. One approach to acquiring a task policy is …

A robot can affect its social environment beyond the person who is interacting with it. Within
this context, we believe it is important to explore Human-Robot Interactions (HRI) in complex …

Learning through imitation is a powerful approach for acquiring new behaviors. Imitation-
based methods have been successfully applied to a wide range of single agent problems …

This chapter focusses on adaptivity as a pivotal enabler of future robotic systems. It is the
fundamental premise of our vision that future robots will have to be capable of autonomous …

Recent works have addressed the problem of imitation in the framework of the interactions
between two agents, whether humans or robots. We develop a model aiming at improving …