1st place in People category, second year in a row, promoting outstanding UK engineering and physical sciences.
During infancy, children learn from their experiences of the world around them. Through playing with objects they build up an understanding of what objects are and how to use them, along with concepts about the basic physics of the world such as object permanence. In this research, we are modelling the learning taking place in young infants and applying it to a humanoid robot to develop a mechanism for robots to learn about the basic physics of the world through understanding object. Here, the iCub robot is learning about how to play from the infant.
Awarded date
15 Jan 2016
Granting Organisations
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council