NICO - Neuro-Inspired COmpanion: A Developmental Humanoid Robot Platform for Multimodal Interaction

Matthias Kerzel, Erik Strahl, Sven Magg, Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero, Stefan Heinrich, Stefan Wermter

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Abstract

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.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN2017)
Number of pages8
Publication date1 Aug 2017
Pages113-120
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Aug 2017
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Robot sensing systems
  • Service robots
  • Mobile robots
  • Human-robot interaction

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