A Robot that Learns to Communicate with Human

CaregiversHideki Kozima and Hiroyuki Yano

IntroductionShift from intentional stance to design stance

Attribute ability to the designers not the robot.Imagine a robot that has learned and is still

learning human communicative behaviour.social intelligence should have an

ontogenetic history that is open to further development.

Infanoid developed as a proposed solution.

InfanoidAny socially communicative intelligence must

have a naturalistic embodimentThe robot is structurally and functionally

similar to human sensori-motor systems.The same kinematic structure of the upper

body of a three-year-old human infant.Provide Infanoid with the basic physical

skills of 6-to-9-month-olds

EmpathyCommunication enables us to predict and

control other people's behaviour to some degree

Use empathy to derive intangible intentions from the physically observable behaviour of Humans

Authors state: a robot must acquire intentionality to be capable of goal-directed spontaneous behaviour.

IdentityTo understand other people's intentions, a

robot that has acquired intentionality has to identify itself with others.

Joint Attentionthe act of sharing each other's attentional focus.creates a shared context in front of participantsBased on Instinct and Learning.

Action captureenables robot to indirectly experience others

behaviour

CommunicationThe ability to identify with

others allows one to acquire an empathetic understanding of someone else’ intention

Key to human communication

and Imitative Learning.

Claims“able to predict and control our behaviour”“cooperate or compete with in our social

activities”“Experience a linguistic and cultural

environment”“needs to understand the symbolic nature of

language”“imagining of it self in the position of the

Human, thereby understanding how they feel and act”

ConclusionA lot of work to do, but an impressive start.No detail of the learning undertaken.Quite Vague and HopefulMore of a demonstration of problems to be

addressed in future, through a working demo.