A Roadmap for Cognitive Development in Humanoid Robots

This book addresses the central role played by development in cognition. The focus is on applying our knowledge of development in natural cognitive systems, specifically human infants, to the problem of creating artificial cognitive systems in the guise of humanoid robots. The approach is founded on the three—fold premise that (a) cognition is the process by which an autonomous self—governing agent acts effectively in the world in which it is embedded, (b) the dual purpose of cognition is t...