Research on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) requires the substantial consideration of an
experimental design, as well as a significant amount of time to practice the subject …

Common sense and social interaction related to daily-life environments are considerably
important for autonomous robots, which support human activities. One of the practical …

A learner can autonomously acquire knowledge by experiencing the world, without
necessarily being explicitly taught. The contents and ways of this type of real-world learning …

In this thesis, we aim at endowing robots with mechanisms to learn multimodal
representations from sensory data and to allow them to execute tasks considering different …

Humans have the remarkable ability to interact with their environment through rich and
diverse actions. In order to actuate on shared environments with humans, artificial agents …