How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel,
create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all …

Nowadays, robots are dominating the manufacturing, entertainment, and healthcare
industries. Robot vision aims to equip robots with the capabilities to discover information …

When historian Charles Weiner found pages of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard
Feynman's notes, he saw it as a" record" of Feynman's work. Feynman himself, however …

Neuroscientific and psychological data suggest a close link between affordance and mirror
systems in the brain. However, we still lack a full understanding of both the individual …

Embodied cognition is a recent development in psychology that practitioners often present
as a superseding standard cognitive science. In this outstanding introduction, Lawrence …

For robots to navigate and interact more richly with the world around them, they will likely
require a deeper understanding of the world in which they operate. In robotics and related …

Tool manipulation is vital for facilitating robots to complete challenging task goals. It requires
reasoning about the desired effect of the task and, thus, properly gras** and manipulating …

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) explores techniques for learning a task policy from
examples provided by a human teacher. The field of LfD has grown into an extensive body …

Affordances encode relationships between actions, objects, and effects. They play an
important role on basic cognitive capabilities such as prediction and planning. We address …

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 …