Humanoids 2012 Workshop on Developmental Robotics
Can developmental robotics yield human-like cognitive abilities?
Osaka, Japan, November 29th, 2012
- Workshop takes place in Room MB, 6th floor of the conference venue. (Floor map)
09:30-09:40 | Welcome: Dr. Emre Ugur, ATR, Kyoto, Japan |
09:40-10:20 | Invited talk:
Action as a founding principle of cognitive development in humans and robots
Dr. Claes von Hofsten, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. |
10:20-11:00 | Invited talk:
Developmental Approach to Robotic Intelligence
Dr. Alexander Stoytchev, Iowa State University, USA. |
11:00-11:05 | Short break |
11:05-11:25 |
The object pairing and matching task: Toward Montessori tests for robots
Connor Schenck* and Alexander Stoytchev |
11:25-11:45 |
Using depth to increase robot visual attention accuracy during tutoring
Christian Penaloza*, Yasushi Mae, Kenichi Ohara and Tatsuo Arai |
11:45-12:05 |
Keyword detection in human robot tutoring scenarios
Christian Dondrup*, Katrin Solveig Lohan, Joe Saunders, Hagen Lehmann, Chrystopher Nehaniv and Britta Wrede |
12:05-13:00 | Lunch |
13:00-13:40 | Invited talk:
Developmental Robotics: Where from and Where to (a personal view)
Dr. Giulio Sandini, Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy. |
13:40-14:20 | Invited talk:
Integrating visual perception and manipulation for autonomous learning of object representations
Dr. Ales Ude, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia. |
14:20-14:35 |
Forming goal-directed memory for cognitive development
Erhard Wieser* and Gordon Cheng |
14:35-14:50 |
Goal babbling: a new concept for early sensorimotor exploration
Matthias Rolf* and Jochen Steil |
14:50-15:05 |
Uterine environment guides organization of somatosensory area: a computational approach
Akimasa Nakashima*, Yasunori Yamada and Yasuo Kuniyoshi |
15:05-15:15 | Coffee break |
15:15-15:55 | Invited talk:
Development of functional hierarchy for actions and motor imageries: a synthetic neurorobotics experiment
Dr. Jun Tani, Korean Advanced Science and Technology, Korea. |
15:55-16:15 |
Towards robots with teleological action and language understanding
Britta Wrede*, Katharina Rohlfing, Jochen Steil, Sebastian Wrede, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer and Jun Tani |
16:15-16:30 |
Central tendency in space perception varies in development and is altered in human-robot interactive tasks
Alessandra Sciutti*, Andrea Del Prete, Lorenzo Natale, David Burr, Giulio Sandini and Monica Gori |
16:30-16:50 |
Cognitive development through a neurologically-based learning framework
John Nassour* and Gordon Cheng |
16:50-17:00 | Invited talk:
Closing remarks: Constructive Developmental Science Based on Understanding the Process from Neuro-Dynamics to Social Interaction
Dr. Minoru Asada, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan |