Developmental Robotics : From Babies to Robots.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (427 pages)
- Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents Series .
- Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Growing Babies and Robots -- 2 Baby Robots -- 3 Novelty, Curiosity, and Surprise -- 4 Seeing the World -- 5 Motor-Skill Acquisition -- 6 Social Robots -- 7 First Words -- 8 Reasoning with Abstract Knowledge -- 9 Conclusions -- References -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
A comprehensive overview of an interdisciplinary approach to robotics that takes direct inspiration from the developmental and learning phenomena observed in children's cognitive development.