Rolf Pfeifer - Plymouth University

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RobotDoc Kickoff Meeting
29 Sept. 2009, Zurich
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RobotDoc Kickoff
ZURICH
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The AI Lab, University of Zurich
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projects and collaborations
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contribution to training/research activities
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The AILab, University of Zurich
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Artificial Intelligence — goals
1. Unterstanding
biological
systems
2. Making
abstractions,
developing theory
humans
animals
3. Applications
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vacuum cleaner
beer-serving robot
Embodiment
role of body in development of intelligent
behavior
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The “four messages of
embodiment”
1. Study of brain not sufficient: embedding,
morphological and material properties,
interaction
2. Characteristics of real world, fundamentally
different from factory environment
3. Task distribution: brain (control), body
(morphology, materials), and environment
4. Induction of sensory stimulation through
physical interaction with environment
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more detail
Rolf Pfeifer and Josh Bongard
How the body shapes the way we
think — a new view of intelligence
MIT Press, 2007
Illustrations by Shun Iwasawa
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Josh Bongard, co-author “How
the body …” in Tokyo
Chinese translation
Translated by
Weidong Chen
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
and
Wenwei Yu
Chiba University, Japan
Foreword by
Lin Chen
Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing
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Platform for experiments: The supercompliant robot ECCE
Design and construction:
Rob Knight — robotstudio, Geneva
Richard Newcombe — Imperial College
Owen Holland — Exxes/Sussex University
Hugo Marques, Cristiano Alessandro —
ZURICH, experiments
Anthropomorphic
design
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The super-compliant robot ECCE
Video of ECCE
Anthropomorphic
design
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Projects and collaborations
WP5: Perception and Action Learning
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Task 5.3: Quantitative framework for
sensory-motor strategies
Collaboration with: IIT, RIKEN
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IIT: continuation of work on iCub but with
focus on morphology and materials;
formation of body schema
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RIKEN: expertise on dynamical systems
and learning
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Projects and collaboratons
WP5: Perception and Action Learning
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Task 5.4: Exploitation of biomechanical
constraints for learning of complex movements
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SUNDERLAND: grounding cognition
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IIT: bootstrapping development
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PLYMOUTH: bootstrapping development
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Contribution to training
activities
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Summer School, Month 18 in Uppsala:
“A primer on embodiment” (3-hour tutorial)
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Summer School, Month 36 in Plymouth:
Categorization as sensory-motor coordination
and/or:
Building a body schema
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The ShanghAI Lectures
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global lecture series on natural and artificial
intelligence
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classwork with 40 universities
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classwork with 40 universities
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intercultural cooperation on interdisciplinary
topic
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