Developmental robotics for embodied language learning was the subject of the IET/TAROS Lecture 2016 and Professor Angelo Cangelosi gave a fascinating presentation to an appreciative audience of roboticists, engineers and members of the general public.


Developmental robotics is a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach to robotics that is directly inspired by the developmental principles and mechanisms observed in children’s cognitive development.


The theme of the talk was the growing theoretical and experimental research on action and language processing and on number learning and gestures.  During the talk Professor Cangelosi presented examples of developmental robotics models and experimental results from iCub experiments on the embodiment biases in early word acquisition and grammar learning (Morse et al. 2015), experiment on the pointing and finger counting in number learning.   His talk was interspersed with some fascinating videos filmed during the research.

Professor Angelo Cangelosi  is Professor in Artificial Intelligence And Cognition - School of Computing, Electronics and Mathematics (Faculty of Science and Engineering).


Before the talk there was an exhibition of small robots, including Nao who treated guests to a dance, gangnam style - but please watch with your volume down - some really bad interference!