creators_name: Fitzpatrick, Paul
editors_name: Berthouze, Luc
editors_name: Kozima, Hideki
editors_name: Prince, Christopher G.
editors_name: Sandini, Giulio
editors_name: Stojanov, Georgi
editors_name: Metta, Giorgio
editors_name: Balkenius, Christian
type: confpaper
datestamp: 2005-04-14
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:50
metadata_visibility: show
title: The DayOne project: how far can a robot develop in 24 hours?
ispublished: pub
subjects: comp-sci-mach-learn
subjects: comp-sci-art-intel
subjects: comp-sci-robot
full_text_status: public
keywords: epigenetic robot, rapid perceptual development, plasticity, perception system, bootstrapping
abstract: What could a robot learn in one day? This paper describes the DayOne project, an endeavor to build an epigenetic robot that can bootstrap from a very rudimentary state to relatively sophisticated perception of objects and activities in a matter of hours. The project is inspired by the astonishingly rapidity with which many animals such as foals and lambs adapt to their surroundings on the first day of their life. While such plasticity may not be a sufficient basis for long-term cognitive development, it may be at least necessary, and share underlying infrastructure. This paper suggests that a sufficiently flexible perceptual system begins to look and act like it contains cognitive structures.
date: 2004
date_type: published
volume: 117
publisher: Lund University Cognitive Studies
pagerange: 115-118
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Fitzpatrick, Paul  (2004) The DayOne project: how far can a robot develop in 24 hours?  [Conference Paper]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/4063/1/fitzpatrick2.pdf