Theory of Mind (ToM) has received significant research attention. Traditional ToM research
has provided important understanding of how humans reason about mental states by …

A comprehensive overview of an interdisciplinary approach to robotics that takes direct
inspiration from the developmental and learning phenomena observed in children's …

This paper explores how a robot's physical presence affects human judgments of the robot
as a social partner. For this experiment, participants collaborated on simple book-moving …

This study explores how a robotpsilas physical or virtual presence affects unconscious
human perception of the robot as a social partner. Subjects collaborated on simple book …

Traditionally investigated in philosophy, body ownership and agency—two main
components of the minimal self—have recently gained attention from other disciplines, such …

Robots are envisioned to collaborate with people in tasks that require physical manipulation
such as a robot instructing a human in assembling household furniture, a human teaching a …

This paper formulates five basic principles of developmental robotics. These principles are
formulated based on some of the recurring themes in the developmental learning literature …

Obstacle detection plays an important role for robot collision avoidance and motion
planning. This paper focuses on the study of the collision prediction of a dual-arm robot …

A self-aware system has the possibility of dealing with novel situations more effectively than
a system without self-awareness. A selfaware system can attend to its own internal states …

We address self-perception in robots as the key for world understanding and causality
interpretation. We present a self-perception mechanism that enables a humanoid robot to …