ISSD-93 Selected papers presented at the international symposium on Spoken dialogue
Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design
Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design
GW '01 Revised Papers from the International Gesture Workshop on Gesture and Sign Languages in Human-Computer Interaction
The art of designing robot faces: dimensions for human-robot interaction
Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCHI/SIGART conference on Human-robot interaction
A model for imitating human reaching movements
Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCHI/SIGART conference on Human-robot interaction
Cognitive vision: The case for embodied perception
Image and Vision Computing
From embodied to socially embedded agents - Implications for interaction-aware robots
Cognitive Systems Research
Enactive artificial intelligence: Investigating the systemic organization of life and mind
Artificial Intelligence
Active categorical perception of object shapes in a simulated anthropomorphic robotic arm
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
Designing the HRTeam framework: lessons learned from a rough-and-ready human/multi-robot team
AAMAS'11 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Advanced Agent Technology
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This paper describes a multi-disciplinary initiative to promote collaborative research in enactive artificial cognitive systems by developing the iCub : a open-systems 53 degree-of-freedom cognitive humanoid robot. At 94 cm tall, the iCub is the same size as a three year-old child. It will be able to crawl on all fours and sit up, its hands will allow dexterous manipulation, and its head and eyes are fully articulated. It has visual, vestibular, auditory, and haptic sensory capabilities. As an open system, the design and documentation of all hardware and software is licensed under the Free Software Foundation GNU licences so that the system can be freely replicated and customized. We begin this paper by outlining the enactive approach to cognition, drawing out the implications for phylogenetic configuration, the necessity for ontogenetic development, and the importance of humanoid embodiment. This is followed by a short discussion of our motivation for adopting an open-systems approach. We proceed to describe the iCub's mechanical and electronic specifications, its software architecture, its cognitive architecture. We conclude by discussing the iCub phylogeny, i.e. the robot's intended innate abilities, and an scenario for ontogenesis based on human neonatal development.