Children, Humanoid Robots and Caregivers

Abstract

This paper presents developmental learning on a humanoid robot from human-robot interactions. We consider in particular teaching humanoids as children during the child's Separation and Individuation developmental phase (Mahler, 1979). Cognitive development during this phase is characterized both by the child's dependence on her mother for learning while becoming awareness of her own individuality, and by self-exploration of her physical surroundings. We propose a learning framework for a humanoid robot inspired on such cognitive development.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA434761

Entities

People

  • Artur Arsenio

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Automata Theory
  • Cognitive Science
  • Computer Science
  • Computer Vision
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Human-Robot Interaction
  • Interdisciplinary Science
  • Multitarget Tracking
  • Object Recognition
  • Personality
  • Probability
  • Psychology
  • Recognition
  • Robots

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Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Autonomous Systems
  • Autonomy