Introduction

The CONCEPT project is an EPSRC funded project at the University of Plymouth in which we study how humans can teach concepts to robots. There are strong indications that young children and adults rely heavily on language when acquiring knowledge and in the CONCEPT project we aim to recreate this aspect of human learning on a robot. The robot will engage with people and will tap into their willingness to teach and share information. However, human learning is slow (it typically takes newborn children three years to actively use 300 words and related concepts) and to speed up the concept acquisition process we will study how robots, once they have learned something, can swiftly exchange that knowledge with other robots over the internet.

Read the abstract.

Project kick off

The project started on the 1st of October 2008. Two talented PhD students have joined us, Joachim de Greeff and Frederic Delaunay.

Contact

Tony Belpaeme (principal investigator)

University of Plymouth
School of Computing, Communications and Electronics
A318 Portland Square
PL4 8AA Plymouth

T: +44 1752 586212
E: tony.belpaeme@plymouth.ac.uk