Robots That Use Language

Multimodal Command Language to Direct Home-use Robots

Web-enabled Robots Robots that use the Web as an Information Resource

As robots are starting to perform everyday manipulation tasks, such as cleaning up, setting a table or preparing simple meals, their control programs must become much more knowledgeable than they are today. Typically, everyday manipulation tasks are specified vaguely and the robot must therefore infer by itself how to do the appropriate actions to the appropriate objects in the appropriate way ...

Natural Language Competent Robots

Why use natural language (NL) to communicate with computer systems? I have always thought the answer was obvious. Since NL is the most natural communication language for people to use [1], it would make computer systems easiest to use if they understood and spoke NL. I often get resistance to this opinion, but the resistance almost always takes the form of comparing current GUIs to current NL i...

Robots with Language

Trying to understand human language by constructing robots that have language necessarily implies an embodied view of language, where the meaning of linguistic expressions is derived from the physical interactions of the organism with the environment. The paper describes a neural model of language according to which the robot's behaviour is controlled by a neural network composed of two sub-net...

Robots That Say 'No'

This paper! reports on foundational considerations for experiments into the acquisition of human-like use and understanding of negation in linguistic utterances via a developmental robotics approach. For this purpose different taxonomies of negation in early child language are analysed in order to show the large variety of communicative functions that these different types of negation have. Req...