A key challenge in intelligent robotics is creating robots that are capable of directly
interacting with the world around them to achieve their goals. The last decade has seen …

This paper reviews “socially interactive robots”: robots for which social human–robot
interaction is important. We begin by discussing the context for socially interactive robots …

In many sequential decision-making problems (eg, robotics control, game playing,
sequential prediction), human or expert data is available containing useful information about …

Robotic reinforcement learning (RL) holds the promise of enabling robots to learn complex
behaviors through experience. However, realizing this promise for long-horizon tasks in the …

This review investigates two recent developments in artificial intelligence and neural
computation: learning from imitation and the development of humanoid robots. It is …

Cynthia Breazeal here presents her vision of the sociable robot of the future, a synthetic
creature and not merely a sophisticated tool. A sociable robot will be able to understand us …

Recently, there have been considerable advances in the research on innovative information
communication technology (ICT) for the education of people with autism. This review …

Movement imitation requires a complex set of mechanisms that map an observed movement
of a teacher onto one's own movement apparatus. Relevant problems include movement …

Imitation guides the behaviour of a range of species. Scientific advances in the study of
imitation at multiple levels from neurons to behaviour have far-reaching implications for …

The study of social learning in robotics has been motivated by both scientific interest in the
learning process and practical desires to produce machines that are useful, flexible, and …