How useful are inspirations from Biology for Robotics?
What light do
psychological studies shed on the construction of artificial agents?
These are just two questions that arise naturally when one
is to consider the realisation of a challenging human dream: to create an
intelligent, autonomous robot.
Then: What can Robotics offer to Biology and Psychology in
return?
What form should an interaction between Robotics, Biology and
Psychology take?
It is the usefulness if not the need of such an interdisciplinary
collaboration that we have questioned recently in
organising an
interdisciplinary workshop
, held on the 10th of March at the Department of
Artificial Intelligence. At this occasion, more than 80
researchers from Cognitive Science, Psychology, Linguistics, Biology,
Neuroscience, Physiology, Artificial Intelligence, Electrical
Engineering, etc. met for one day of talks and
discussions.
The general interest the audience showed in such an
interdisciplinary collaboration led us to create this page as a
framework for future collaborative research. This includes a list of
people that have shown their interest either by participating in the
workshop or by emailing us, a list of interdisciplinary projects
actually carried out in the department and finally a list of
conferences and seminars relevant for all these fields.
This page is in constant construction and we would be very
pleased by any comments. If you would like links or information to be
added, please, do
not hesitate to contact us:
mrobots-workshop@dai.ed.ac.uk Aude Billard and Auke Jan Ijspeert
