Tony Belpaeme

Tony Belpaeme is Reader in Intelligent Systems at the University of Plymouth. He is associated with the Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems and is a member of the University of Plymouth Marine Institute. He is a member of the College of the EPSRC. His research interests include cognitive robotics, concept formation and artificial intelligence in general. At Plymouth he works alongside Angelo Cangelosi, Davide Marocco, Phil Culverhouse and Guido Bugmann on building intelligent and adaptive systems.
Until April 2005 he was a postdoctoral fellow of the Flemish fund for scientific research (FWO Vlaanderen), and was affiliated with the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, directed by Luc Steels, at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He held a guest professorship at the same university, where he taught introductory artificial intelligence and autonomous systems.

• The ALIZ-E project "Adaptive Strategies for Sustainable Long-Term Social Interaction". Integrated project under the 7th framework programme of the European Union.  Plymouth coordinates the 8.3 M€ 4.5-year project, of which Plymouth receives 1.4 M€. The ALIZ-E consortium consists of 7 academic partners (Tony Belpaeme as coordinator, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, Imperial College, University of Hertfordshire, National Research Council Padova), one hospital (San Raffaele del Monte Tabor, Italy) and one SME (Gostai, Paris). ALIZ-E runs from 2010 to 2014.
• The CONCEPT project on "Linguistic and direct transmission of concepts in human-robot networks" is an EPSRC funded project (£192,291, 2008-2011) studying how robots can acquire concepts using language and how conceptual information can be transferred between robots.
• The ITALK project. ITALK "Integration and Transfer of Action and Language Knowledge in Robots" is an Integrated Project under the 7th Framework Programme, studying how language and action interact with cognition. This €6.25M project (of which Plymouth receives €1.68M) running from 2008 to 2012 will use a humanoid robot, the iCub, as a test platform and will help us understand how intelligence can be recreated.
• The Marine Institute has kindly provided a grant on which Simon Oliver, Phil Culverhouse and myself study automated classification of marine zooplankton.
• The P-ARTS project (Plymouth Advanced Robot Training Suite) is an Apple Research and Technology Support project funded in kind by Apple. Davide Marocco, Tony Belpaeme, Angelo Cangelosi and Rob Ellis will use Apple Xserve machines to support cognitive robotics research.
• The ROBOT-DOC project is a Marie Curie Initial Training Networks (ITN) led by the University of Plymouth. ROBOT-DOC unites top European universities to jointly train early career researchers to study the development of cognition in robotics. Partners include the University of Zurich, the Italian Institute of Technology, the University of Skovde (SE), the University of Bielefeld (D), the University of Sunderland, Uppsala University, Yale University (USA), RIKEN (Japan) and companies Telerobot and Honda.