NICO — Neuro-inspired companion: A developmental humanoid robot platform for multimodal interaction

Interdisciplinary research, drawing from robotics, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, psychology, and cognitive science, is a cornerstone to advance the state-of-the-art in multimodal human-robot interaction and neuro-cognitive modeling. Research on neuro-cognitive models benefits from the embod...

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Published in2017 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) pp. 113 - 120
Main Authors Kerzel, Matthias, Strahl, Erik, Magg, Sven, Navarro-Guerrero, Nicolas, Heinrich, Stefan, Wermter, Stefan
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.08.2017
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Human-robot interaction
Mobile robots
Robot sensing systems
Service robots
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Summary:Interdisciplinary research, drawing from robotics, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, psychology, and cognitive science, is a cornerstone to advance the state-of-the-art in multimodal human-robot interaction and neuro-cognitive modeling. Research on neuro-cognitive models benefits from the embodiment of these models into physical, humanoid agents that possess complex, human-like sensorimotor capabilities for multimodal interaction with the real world. For this purpose, we develop and introduce NICO (Neuro-Inspired COmpanion), a humanoid developmental robot that fills a gap between necessary sensing and interaction capabilities and flexible design. This combination makes it a novel neuro-cognitive research platform for embodied sensorimotor computational and cognitive models in the context of multimodal interaction as shown in our results.
ISSN:1944-9437
DOI:10.1109/ROMAN.2017.8172289