Affordances encode relationships between actions, objects and effects. They play an important role on basic cognitive capabilities such as prediction and planning. We address the p...
Luis Montesano, Manuel Lopes, Alexandre Bernardino...
An important component of language acquisition and cognitive learning is gaze imitation. Infants as young as one year of age can follow the gaze of an adult to determine the objec...
Matthew W. Hoffman, David B. Grimes, Aaron P. Shon...
This study extends previous research that showed how informal social sanctions can backfire when members prefer friendship over enforcement of group norms. We use a type of neural...
— Programming a humanoid robot to perform an action that takes the robot’s complex dynamics into account is a challenging problem. Traditional approaches typically require high...
Abstract— A system is detailed here for using imitation learning to teach a robot to grasp objects using both hand and wholebody grasps, which use the arms and torso as well as h...