owner: yuvalm
What is a social robot?
No, it is not a robot that organizes or goes
to parties (although it would be pleasant!).
Sociality implies interactional relationships. An agent able of
interactive, communicative behaviour would be considered as social.
Our current research tackles some aspects of social behaviour applied
to robots, as described below.
Developing new skills through interactions
One of our current project concerns
Learning by Imitation. Interactive relationships between two
agents conduct one agent to learn to develop new skills by the
observation and then the imitation of a second agent.
Analytical observation of other agent in order to distinguish between
individuals is also studied in two current projects:
- The
Gait Recognition project studies how an agent can learn to
recognize another agent though its way of walking.
- The
Face Recognition project tackles the problem of how to recognize
faces among other objects.
Learning skills in order to interact
Interactions means often communication. We study how communication
abilities can be learned as part of general learning abilities. More can
be found in the page
Learning to Communicate
Interacting
An other interesting project of ours is the
Cat Project. The
idea is to build a robust robotic cat capable of surviving in a real
academic environment for weeks without human intervention. Heat sensors
for detecting living-human beings and ears would provide it with a way
to possibly recognize and interact with humans.
People
Home pages of people in our group involved in these projects include
Previous Researchers