PRESS NEWS
Interview on France Culture (2006)
Article in Pour La Science: "Un robot curieux" (2006)
How This Dog Teaches Itself New Tricks (2005)
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NATURAL HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION
I) How can a human teach new words to an autonomous robot?
This demo was made using the URBI software How can a human teach new words to a robot in a natural manner? What social regulation mechanisms are needed for robust and intuitive interaction? What are the necessary technological requirements? These are the questions investigated in this project. The video above shows an example of experiment which was built to study how one can implement flexible and natural interaction protocols based on speech synthesis and recognition and how one can actually realize a primitive form of joint attention with robots. In particular, we used a system of visual tags to augment the robot's reality so that it can accurately perceive the objects around it, coupled with a behavioural system that allows the human to naturally understand what the robot is paying attention to. Selected publications: Kaplan F., Oudeyer P-Y., Bergen B. (in press) Computational Models in the Debate over Language Learnability, Infant and Child Development. Kaplan F. and Oudeyer P-Y. (2006) Un robot curieux, Pour La Science, no. 348, octobre 2006.
II) Taming robots with clicker training
Can we train robot to do tricks the same way people train dogs or dolphins with clicker training ? Together with Frédéric Kaplan and Eniko Kubinyi, we developed the idea that some techniques used for animal training might be helpful for solving human robot interaction problems in the context of entertainment robotics. We presented a model for teaching complex actions to an animal-like autonomous robot based on ”clicker training”, a method used efficiently by professional trainers for animals of different species. After describing our implementation of clicker training on an enhanced version of AIBO, Sony’s four-legged robot, we showed that this new method can be a promising technique for teaching unusual behavior and sequences of actions to a pet robot. Selected publications: Kaplan, F., Oudeyer, P-Y., Kubinyi, E. and Miklosi, A. (2002) Robotic clicker training, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 38(3-4), pp. 197--206. bibtex reference abstract Kaplan, F. and Oudeyer, P-Y. and Kubinyi, E. and Miklosi, A.(2001) Clicker training sessions with an animal-like robot. Advances in Ethology (Supplements to Ethology), 36, 2001.
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RELATED PROJECTS
Developmental Robotics and Artificial Curiosity
Acquisition and evolution of language
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