A key challenge in intelligent robotics is creating robots that are capable of directly
interacting with the world around them to achieve their goals. The last decade has seen …

Creating autonomous robots that can actively explore the environment, acquire knowledge
and learn skills continuously is the ultimate achievement envisioned in cognitive and …

For robots to navigate and interact more richly with the world around them, they will likely
require a deeper understanding of the world in which they operate. In robotics and related …

We consider the problem of constructing abstract representations for planning in high-
dimensional, continuous environments. We assume an agent equipped with a collection of …

Recent approaches in robot perception follow the insight that perception is facilitated by
interaction with the environment. These approaches are subsumed under the term …

The concept of affordances appeared in psychology during the late 60s as an alternative
perspective on the visual perception of the environment. It was revolutionary in the intuition …

A concise introduction to a complex field, bringing together recent work in cognitive science
and cognitive robotics to offer a solid grounding on key issues. This book offers a concise …

Within the realm of service robotics, researchers have placed a great amount of effort into
learning, understanding, and representing motions as manipulations for task execution by …

Machine learning has long since become a keystone technology, accelerating science and
applications in a broad range of domains. Consequently, the notion of applying learning …

Recognizing manipulations performed by a human and the transfer and execution of this by
a robot is a difficult problem. We address this in the current study by introducing a novel …