Creating autonomous robots that can actively explore the environment, acquire knowledge
and learn skills continuously is the ultimate achievement envisioned in cognitive and …

Using human tools can significantly benefit robots in many application domains. Such ability
would allow robots to solve problems that they were unable to without tools. However, robot …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Service robots are expected to play an important role in our daily lives as our companions in
home and work environments in the near future. An important requirement for fulfilling this …

Most theories of learning would predict a gradual acquisition and refinement of skills as
learning progresses, and while some highlight exponential growth, this fails to explain why …

The concept of affordances facilitates the encoding of relations between actions and effects
in an environment centered around the agent. Such an interpretation has important impacts …

Affordances describe the possibilities for an agent to perform actions with an object. While
the significance of the affordance concept has been previously studied from varied …

This paper addresses the problem of having a robot executing motor tasks requested by a
human through spoken language. Verbal instructions do not typically have a one-to-one …