%A Andrea Kulakov %A Georgi Stojanov %T Structures, inner values, hierarchies and stages: essentials for developmental robot architectures %X In this paper we try to locate the essential components needed for a developmental robot architecture. We take the vocabulary and the main concepts from Piaget?s genetic epistemology and Vygotsky?s activity theory. After proposing an outline for a general developmental architecture, we describe the architectures that we have been developing in the recent years - Petitag? and Vygovorotsky. According to this outline, various contemporary works in autonomous agents can be classified, in an attempt to get a glimpse into the big picture and make the advances and open problems visible. %K developmental robot, Piaget, genetic epistemology, Vygotsky, activity theory, autonomous agents %P 63-69 %E Christopher G. Prince %E Yiannis Demiris %E Yuval Marom %E Hideki Kozima %E Christian Balkenius %V 94 %D 2002 %I Lund University Cognitive Studies %L cogprints2596