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The ITALK project aims to develop
artificial embodied agents able to acquire complex behavioural,
cognitive, and linguistic skills through individual and social learning.
This will be achieved through experiments with the iCub humanoid robot to
learn to handle and manipulate objects and tools autonomously, to
cooperate and communicate with other robots and humans, and to adapt to changing
internal, environmental, and social conditions.
The project will lead to the
development of
· new theoretical
insights, models and scientific explanations of the integration of action,
social and linguistic skills to bootstrap cognitive development
· new
interdisciplinary sets of methods for analysing the interaction of
language, action and cognition in humans and artificial cognitive agents,
· new
cognitively-plausible engineering principles and approaches for the
design of robots with behavioural, cognitive, social and linguistic
skills
· robotic
experiments on object manipulation and language with the iCub robot
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New
studies will address the following research themes:
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Action development and
compositionality of action
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Embodied
conceptualisation
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Social interaction and
learning
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Emergence of language and
compositional lexicons
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Integration and
bootstrapping of action, language and cognition
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Demonstration and testing
in humanoid robot iCub
Research
will be based on the following methodologies
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Developmental and
epigenetic robotics
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Neural network models of
action and language grounding
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Developmental linguistics
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Neuroscience of action
learning, imitation and gaze following
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Human-Robot experiments
on social learning and interaction
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Experiments with physical
and simulated iCub platform
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Adaptive
Behaviour & Cognition, University of Plymouth (UK)
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Humanoid Robotics, Italian Institute of Technology
(Genoa)
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Applied
Computer Science, Bielefeld University (Germany)
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Robotics & Artificial Life, National
Research Council Rome (Italy)
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Adaptive Systems Research,
University of Hertfordshire (UK)
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Department of Business Communication and Information
Science, University of Southern Denmark (Denmark)
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Behavior and
Dynamic Cognition, RIKEN Brain Science Institute (Japan)
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Cognitive Machines,
MIT Media Lab (collaborator)
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Angelo
Cangelosi (Coordinator), Tony Belpaeme, Davide Marocco, Vadim Tikhanoff, Martin
Peniak, Martin Beck
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Giorgio Metta, Luciano
Fadiga, Giulio
Sandini, Francesco
Nori, Paola Salmas
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Gerhard
Sagerer, Britta Wrede, Katharina
Rohlfing
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Stefano Nolfi, Elio Tuci, Marco Mirolli, Domenico Parisi,
Gianluca
Massera
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Chrystopher
Nehaniv, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Joe
Saunders
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Kerstin Fischer, Arne Zeschel
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Jun Tani, Yuuya Sugita
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Deb Roy
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