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 language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN2017) |
Number of pages | 8 |
Publication date | 1 Aug 2017 |
Pages | 113-120 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Aug 2017 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Robot sensing systems
- Service robots
- Mobile robots
- Human-robot interaction