Recently, there have been considerable advances in the research on innovative information
communication technology (ICT) for the education of people with autism. This review …

Developmental robotics is an emerging field located at the intersection of robotics, cognitive
science and developmental sciences. This paper elucidates the main reasons and key …

This paper evaluates a model of human imitation of abstract, two-arm movements. The
model consists of a hierarchy of artificial neural networks, which are abstractions of brain …

This paper proposes a neural architecture for a robot in order to learn how to imitate a
sequence of movements performed by another robot or by a human. The main idea is that …

In this paper, a robot learns different postures by imitating several partners. We assessed the
effect of the type of partners, ie, adults, typically developing (TD) children and children with …

Oculomotor control in a humanoid robot faces similar problems as biological oculomotor
systems, ie the stabilization of gaze in face of unknown perturbations of the body, selective …

The aim of this paper is to illustrate some of the peculiarities of human sensori-motor
development for the execution of visually guided reaching and to suggest a similar …

This article presents a new approach of soft material modeling for robotic manipulation
which combines physical modeling and tracking of a deformable object. We discuss the …

Designing a mechanism that will allow a robot to imitate the actions of a human, apart from
being interesting for opening the possibilities for efficient social learning through observation …

We consider the problem of enabling a robot to efficiently obtain a dense haptic map of its
visible surroundings using the complementary properties of vision and tactile sensing. Our …