The cooperation between humans and robots is becoming increasingly important in our
society. Consequently, there is a growing interest in the development of models that can …

JJ Gibson's concept of affordance, one of the central pillars of ecological psychology, is a
truly remarkable idea that provides a concise theory of animal perception predicated on …

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 …

In Exploring Robotic Minds: Actions, Symbols, and Consciousness as Self-Organizing
Dynamic Phenomena, Jun Tani sets out to answer an essential and tantalizing question …

The trend in industrial/service robotics is to develop robots that can cooperate with people,
interacting with them in an autonomous, safe and purposive way. These are the fundamental …

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 …

This work aims for bottom-up and autonomous development of symbolic planning operators
from continuous interaction experience of a manipulator robot that explores the environment …

What is a fundamental ability for cognitive development? Although many researchers have
been addressing this question, no shared understanding has been acquired yet. We …

This article studies algorithms used by a learner to explore high-dimensional structured
sensorimotor spaces such as in tool use discovery. In particular, we consider goal babbling …

Affordances are key attributes of what must be perceived by an autonomous robotic agent in
order to effectively interact with novel objects. Historically, the concept derives from the …