Cognitive developmental robotics as a new paradigm for the design of humanoid robots

This paper proposes cognitive developmental robotics (CDR) as a new principle for the design of humanoid robots. This principle may provide ways of understanding human beings that go beyond the current level of explanation found in the natural and social sciences. Furthermore, a methodological emphasis on humanoid robots in the design of artificial creatures holds promise because they have many degrees of freedom and sense modalities and, thus, must face the challenges of scalability that are often side-stepped in simpler domains. We examine the potential of this new principle as well as issues that are Rely to be important to CDR in the future. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.