Despite rapid progress, cognitive robots have yet to match the facility with which humans
acquire and find ways to reuse manipulation skills. An important component of human …

Unsupervised skill discovery carries the promise that an intelligent agent can learn reusable
skills through autonomous, reward-free environment interaction. Existing unsupervised skill …

Collaborative robots continue to depend on substantial robot programming expertise to be
useful to end-consumers and small to mid-level enterprise. Robot skill learning techniques …

Every day humans face challenges that require ingenious solutions and making do with
limited resources. From opening a stuck jar to re-floating a sunken ship to improvising a …

Exploring the utilization of tools has been a significant point of study in differentiating human
intelligence from animal behavior. While numerous types of animals have also …

Utility function plays an important role in human decision making. But these utility functions
are internal to humans, which are hard to observe and represent in a specific way …

Understanding and representing human utility is a multifaceted challenge crucial for the
advancement of artificial intelligence (AI). Human decision-making is inherently subjective …

The tool-use ability has traditionally been regarded as an indicator of intelligence,
separating humans from animals. However, recent research has discovered that animals are …