Building intell igent systems with human level of competence is the ultimate grand challenge for science and technology in general, and especially for the computational intelligence community. Recent theories in autonomous cognitive systems have focused on the close integration (grounding) of communication with perception , categorisation and action . Cognitive systems are essential for integra...

In human human interactions, a consciously perceived high degree of self other overlap is associated with a higher degree of integration of the other person's actions into one's own cognitive representations. Here, we report data suggesting that this pattern does not hold for human robot interactions. Participants performed a social Simon task with a robot, and afterwards indicated the degree o...

This paper provides a brief description of Robo-Erectus Senior III– a teen size soccer playing humanoid robot developed at Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Control Centre of Singapore Polytechnic. The mechanical and electrical specifications of the robot are described. This paper also covers the vision processing, locomotion control, state-driven Monte Carlo localization and force/torque senso...

the main objective of this article is to optimize the walking pattern of a 2d humanoid robot with heel-off and toe-off motions in order to minimize the energy consumption and maximize the stability margin. to this end, at first, a gait planning method is introduced based on the ankle and hip joint position trajectories. then, using these trajectories and the inverse kinematics, the position tra...

This report proposes a research topic in the field of human-robot interaction. The research will focus on real-time learning paradigm and its application in social robotics. Gestures, as part of more complex actions, will provide information necessary for a social robot to infer emotional state of a human demonstrator. The research may lead to further investigation of acceptance of humanoid rob...

This document describes the RoboCup Humanoid League team NimbRo of University of Freiburg. It details the mechanical and electrical design of a humanoid robot, as well as robot simulation, perception, and behavior control.

Gaze behavior of humanoid robots is an efficient mechanism for cueing our spatial orienting, but less is known about the cognitive-affective consequences of robots responding to human directional cues. Here, we examined how the extent to which a humanoid robot (iCub) avatar directed its gaze to the same objects as our participants affected engagement with the robot, subsequent gaze-cueing, and ...

The Problem: The ability to distinguish among different individuals is crucial for all social animals. Observations of behavior within dolphin male coalitions indicate that dolphins are able to not only recognize friends, but also keep track of their previous behavior to predict future action. This work addresses the questions of how one may implement such social competence in a humanoid robot....

Assistive humanoid robots operating in everyday life environments have to autonomously navigate and perform several tasks. In this paper we propose a neural network based humanoid robot navigation and arm trajectory generation. The robotic system, which is equipped with a visual sensor, laser range finders, navigates in the environment. The neural controllers generate the robot arm motion in dy...

Humanoid robots have the potential to become a part of everyday life as their hardware and software challenges are being solved. In this paper we present a system that gets as input a motion trajectory in the form of motion capture data, and produces a controller that controls a humanoid robot in real-time to achieve a motion trajectory that is similar to the input motion data. The controller e...