Touch sensing can help robots understand their surrounding environment, and in particular
the objects they interact with. To this end, roboticists have, in the last few decades …

Tactile sensing is an essential element of autonomous dexterous robot hand manipulation. It
provides information about forces of interaction and surface properties at points of contact …

Nonverbal sound offers great potential to enhance robots' interactions with humans, and a
growing body of research has begun to explore nonverbal sound for tasks such as sound …

Grounded language acquisition is a major area of research combining aspects of natural
language processing, computer vision, and signal processing, compounded by domain …

We propose a novel online learning algorithm, called SpCoSLAM 2.0, for spatial concepts
and lexical acquisition with high accuracy and scalability. Previously, we proposed …

A major goal of grounded language learning research is to enable robots to connect
language predicates to a robot's physical interactive perception of the world. Coupling object …

In recent studies, it has been revealed that robots can form concepts and understand the
meanings of words through inference. The key idea underlying these studies is “multimodal …

Recent studies have shown that robots can form concepts and understand the meanings of
words through inference. The key idea underlying these studies is the “multimodal …

From an early age, humans learn to develop an intuition for the physical nature of the
objects around them by using exploratory behaviors. Such exploration provides …

We propose a method for a robot to form various concepts. The robot uses its embodiment to
obtain visual, auditory, and haptic information by gras**, shaking, and observing objects …