The RUBI project: a progress report

The goal of the RUBI project is to accelerate progress in the development of social robots by addressing the problem at multiple levels, including the development of new scientific methods, formal approaches, hardware, software, and scientific agenda. The project is based on the idea that progress will go hand-in-hand with the emergence of a new scientific discipline that focuses on understanding the organization of adaptive behavior in real-time within the environments in which organisms operate. As such, the RUBI project emphasizes the process of design by immersion, i.e., embedding scientists, engineers and robots in everyday life environments so as to have these environments shape the hardware, software, and scientific questions as early as possible in the development process. The focus has been on social robots that interact with 18 to 24 month old toddlers as part of their daily activities at the Early Childhood Education Center at the University of California, San Diego. In thi...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: HRI
• Authors: Javier R. Movellan, Fumihide Tanaka, Ian R. Fasel, Cynthia Taylor, Paul Ruvolo, Micah Eckhardt
• Keywords: HRI 2007, Human Computer Interaction, RUBI Project, Scientific, Social Robots