TY - GEN
T1 - NICO - Neuro-Inspired COmpanion: A Developmental Humanoid Robot Platform for Multimodal Interaction
AU - Kerzel, Matthias
AU - Strahl, Erik
AU - Magg, Sven
AU - Navarro-Guerrero, Nicolás
AU - Heinrich, Stefan
AU - Wermter, Stefan
PY - 2017/8/1
Y1 - 2017/8/1
N2 - Interdisciplinary research, drawing from robotics, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, psychology, and cognitive science, is a cornerstone to advance the state-of-the-art in multimodal human-robot interaction and neuro-cognitive modeling. Research on neuro-cognitive models benefits from the embodiment of these models into physical, humanoid agents that possess complex, human-like sensorimotor capabilities for multimodal interaction with the real world. For this purpose, we develop and introduce NICO (Neuro-Inspired COmpanion), a humanoid developmental robot that fills a gap between necessary sensing and interaction capabilities and flexible design. This combination makes it a novel neuro-cognitive research platform for embodied sensorimotor computational and cognitive models in the context of multimodal interaction as shown in our results.
AB - Interdisciplinary research, drawing from robotics, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, psychology, and cognitive science, is a cornerstone to advance the state-of-the-art in multimodal human-robot interaction and neuro-cognitive modeling. Research on neuro-cognitive models benefits from the embodiment of these models into physical, humanoid agents that possess complex, human-like sensorimotor capabilities for multimodal interaction with the real world. For this purpose, we develop and introduce NICO (Neuro-Inspired COmpanion), a humanoid developmental robot that fills a gap between necessary sensing and interaction capabilities and flexible design. This combination makes it a novel neuro-cognitive research platform for embodied sensorimotor computational and cognitive models in the context of multimodal interaction as shown in our results.
KW - Robot sensing systems
KW - Service robots
KW - Mobile robots
KW - Human-robot interaction
U2 - 10.1109/ROMAN.2017.8172289
DO - 10.1109/ROMAN.2017.8172289
M3 - Article in proceedings
SP - 113
EP - 120
BT - Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN2017)
ER -