Humans and animals have the ability to continually acquire, fine-tune, and transfer
knowledge and skills throughout their lifespan. This ability, referred to as lifelong learning, is …

The desire to reduce the dependence on curated, labeled datasets and to leverage the vast
quantities of unlabeled data has triggered renewed interest in unsupervised (or self …

Recent progress in artificial intelligence has renewed interest in building systems that learn
and think like people. Many advances have come from using deep neural networks trained …

A new theory about the origins of consciousness that finds learning to be the driving force in
the evolutionary transition to basic consciousness. What marked the evolutionary transition …

Increasing man-machine trust has burgeoned during the last few decades. The growing
interest in trust-building has led to the study of the non-dichotomous nature of trust. Trust as …

Building autonomous machines that can explore open-ended environments, discover
possible interactions and build repertoires of skills is a general objective of artificial …

Human perceptual decisions are often described as optimal. Critics of this view have argued
that claims of optimality are overly flexible and lack explanatory power. Meanwhile …

Robotic agents designed to assist people across a variety of social and service settings are
becoming increasingly prevalent across the world. Here we synthesise two decades of …

Recent technological developments in robotics has driven the design and production of
different humanoid robots. Several studies have highlighted that the presence of human-like …

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 …