| Weng, J., Zhang, Y. Developmental robots: A new paradigm 2002 [pdf] |
| It has been proved to be extremely challenging for humans to program a robot to such a su±cient degree that it acts properly in a typical unknown human environment. This is especially true for a humanoid robot due to the very large number of redundant degrees of freedom and a large number of sensors that are required for a humanoid to work safely and e®ectively in the human environment. How can we address this fundamental problem? Motivated by human mental development from infancy to adulthood, we present a theory, an architecture, and some experimental results showing how to enable a robot to develop its mind automatically, through online, real time interactions with its environment. Humans mentally raise the robot through robot sitting and robot schools instead of task-specific robot programming. |
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