creators_name: Weng, Juyang creators_name: Zhang, Yilu editors_name: Prince, Christopher G. editors_name: Demiris, Yiannis editors_name: Marom, Yuval editors_name: Kozima, Hideki editors_name: Balkenius, Christian type: confpaper datestamp: 2003-10-04 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:04 metadata_visibility: show title: Developmental Robots - A New Paradigm ispublished: pub subjects: comp-sci-mach-learn subjects: comp-sci-art-intel subjects: comp-sci-robot full_text_status: public keywords: mental development, developmental robot, real-time, online, SAIL abstract: It has been proved to be extremely challenging for humans to program a robot to such a sufficient degree that it acts properly in a typical unknown human environment. This is especially true for a humanoid robot due to the very large number of redundant degrees of freedom and a large number of sensors that are required for a humanoid to work safely and effectively in the human environment. How can we address this fundamental problem? Motivated by human mental development from infancy to adulthood, we present a theory, an architecture, and some experimental results showing how to enable a robot to develop its mind automatically, through online, real time interactions with its environment. Humans mentally “raise” the robot through “robot sitting” and “robot schools” instead of task-specific robot programming. date: 2002 date_type: published volume: 94 publisher: Lund University Cognitive Studies pagerange: 163-174 refereed: TRUE citation: Weng, Juyang and Zhang, Yilu (2002) Developmental Robots - A New Paradigm. [Conference Paper] document_url: http://cogprints.org/2530/1/Weng.pdf