The construction industry is seeking a robotic revolution to meet increasing demands for
productivity, quality, and safety. Typically, construction robots are usually pre-programmed …

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 …

This paper investigates object categorization according to function, ie, learning the
affordances of objects from human demonstration. Object affordances (functionality) are …

There exists a large conceptual gap between symbolic models and emergent models for the
mind. Many emergent models work on low-level sensory data, while many symbolic models …

Recognizing manipulations performed by a human and the transfer and execution of this by
a robot is a difficult problem. We address this in the current study by introducing a novel …

In this study, we present a framework that infers human activities from observations using
semantic representations. The proposed framework can be utilized to address the difficult …

Humans use signs, eg, sentences in a spoken language, for communication and thought.
Hence, symbol systems like language are crucial for our communication with other agents …

This paper formalises Object–Action Complexes (OACs) as a basis for symbolic
representations of sensory–motor experience and behaviours. OACs are designed to …

Affordances capture the relationships between a robot and the environment in terms of the
actions that the robot is able to perform. The notable characteristic of affordance-based …

Affordances define the action possibilities on an object in the environment and in robotics
they play a role in basic cognitive capabilities. Previous works have focused on affordance …