Angelo CANGELOSI – 23 septembre 2021
Titre : Developmental Robotics: From Babies to Robots
Résumé:
The latest developments in AI and machine learning offer an opportunity to advance the design of intelligent robots and human-robot interaction systems, for applications in flexible manufacturing, robot companions for older people and in education. We will introduce the field of Developmental Robotics, part of the wider field of Cognitive Robotics (Cangelosi & Schlesinger 2015; Cangelosi & Asada 2021). This combines AI with robotics by taking inspiration from psychology (e.g. child psychology) and neuroscience. In the talk we briefly present some examples of developmental robotics experiments and videos showing how robots can learn to communication with people, and can develop social skills such as Theory of Mind to improve the design of trustworthy autonomous systems.
Références:
Cangelosi A, Asada M (Eds.) (2021, in press). Cognitive Robotics. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Cangelosi A, Schlesinger M (2015). Developmental Robotics: From Babies to Robots. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Bio:
Angelo Cangelosi currently is Professor of Machine Learning and Robotics at the University of Manchester (UK). He also is Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute London and Visiting Distinguished Fellow at AIST-AIRC Tokyo. His research interests are in developmental robotics, language grounding, human robot-interaction and trust, and robot companions for health and social care. Cangelosi currently is Principal investigator for the ongoing projects “UKRI TAS Trust Node” (EPSRC, 2020-24, £1m), “THRIVE++” (US Air Force Lab, 2018-2023, $1m) and the H2020 projects TRAINCREASE, eLADDA ETN and PERSEO ETN. Overall, Cangelosi has secured over £32m of research grants as coordinator/PI, and produced more than 250 scientific publications. Cangelosi is Editor of the journals Interaction Studies and IET Cognitive Computation and Systems. His book “Developmental Robotics: From Babies to Robots” (MIT Press) was published in January 2015, and recently translated in Chinese and Japanese. His latest book “Cognitive Robotics” (MIT Press), coedited with Minoru Asada, will be published in 2021.