Infanoid: An Experimental Tool for Developmental Psycho-Robotics
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Recent studies of humanoid robotics (Brooks 1998) have claimed that natural communication with human beings requires that the artificial agent possesses two essential features: embodiment, sharing a structurally and functionally similar body with the interlocutor, and situatedness, being embedded in the same socio-cultural environment (Zlatev 1999). However, almost no specific methods have been proposed so far to bridge the gap between these two prerequisites and thereby answer the question: how do artificial embodied agents become situated in a shared socio-cultural environment?
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