Obiettivo In spite of considerable work in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and pattern recognition in the past 50 years, we have no machine capable of adapting to the physical and social environment with the flexibility, robustness and versatility of a 6-months old human child. Instead of trying to simulate directly the adult s intelligence, EXPLORERS proposes to focus on the developmental principles that give rise to intelligence in infants by re-implementing them in machines. Framed in the developmental/epigenetic robotics research agenda, and grounded in research in developmental psychology, its main target is to build robotic machines capable of autonomously learning and re-using a variety of skills and know-how that were not specified at design time, and with initially limited knowledge of the body and of the environment in which it will operate. This implies several fundamental issues: How can a robot discover its body and its relationships with the physical and social environment? How can it learn new skills without the intervention of an engineer? What internal motivations shall guide its exploration of vast spaces of skills? Can it learn through natural social interactions with humans? How to represent the learnt skills and how can they be re-used? EXPLORERS attacks directly those questions by proposing a series of fundamental scientific and technological advances, including computational intrinsic motivation systems for learning basic sensorimotor skills reused for grounded acquisition of the meaning of new words. This project not only addresses fundamental scientific questions, but also relates to important societal issues: personal home robots are bound to become part of everyday life in the 21st century, in particular as helpful social companions in an aging society. EXPLORERS objectives converge to the challenges implied by this vision: robots will have to be able to adapt and learn new skills in the unknown homes of users who are not engineers. Campo scientifico scienze naturaliinformatica e scienze dell'informazioneintelligenza artificialericonoscimento delle formeingegneria e tecnologiaingegneria elettrica, ingegneria elettronica, ingegneria informaticaingegneria elettronicaroboticascienze naturaliinformatica e scienze dell'informazioneintelligenza artificialeapprendimento automaticoscienze socialipsicologiapsicologia dello svilupposcienze naturaliscienze biologichegeneticaepigenetica Programma(i) FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Argomento(i) ERC-SG-PE6 - ERC Starting Grant - Computer science and informatics Invito a presentare proposte ERC-2009-StG Vedi altri progetti per questo bando Meccanismo di finanziamento ERC-SG - ERC Starting Grant Coordinatore INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET AUTOMATIQUE Indirizzo Domaine de voluceau rocquencourt 78153 Le chesnay cedex Francia Mostra sulla mappa Regione Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Yvelines Tipo di attività Research Organisations Ricercatore principale Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (Dr.) Contatto amministrativo Dominique Salles (Ms.) Collegamenti Contatta l’organizzazione Opens in new window Sito web Opens in new window Contributo UE € 1 572 215,00 Beneficiari (1) Classifica in ordine alfabetico Classifica per Contributo UE Espandi tutto Riduci tutto INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET AUTOMATIQUE Francia Contributo UE € 1 572 215,00 Indirizzo Domaine de voluceau rocquencourt 78153 Le chesnay cedex Mostra sulla mappa Regione Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Yvelines Tipo di attività Research Organisations Ricercatore principale Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (Dr.) Contatto amministrativo Dominique Salles (Ms.) Collegamenti Contatta l’organizzazione Opens in new window Sito web Opens in new window