The Problem: It is believed that one of the distinguishing skills of homo sapiens sapiens is that of learning from imitation while it is less clear whether other primates are capable of true imitation. Imitation encompasses a set of different competences such as recognizing other people’s actions, recognizing the goal of a particular action and the objects and/or subjects involved. This project...

In this paper, we present an experiment on imitation between a humanoid robot and a human subject. Contrary to many other experiments on imitation, it is not about imitation learning by the robot, but about the robot recognising when the human is imitating its behaviour. We show some first results of correlation measures for different experimental setups and discuss possible ways of representat...