@misc{cogprints2530, volume = {94}, editor = {Christopher G. Prince and Yiannis Demiris and Yuval Marom and Hideki Kozima and Christian Balkenius}, title = {Developmental Robots - A New Paradigm}, author = {Juyang Weng and Yilu Zhang}, publisher = {Lund University Cognitive Studies}, year = {2002}, pages = {163--174}, keywords = {mental development, developmental robot, real-time, online, SAIL}, url = {http://cogprints.org/2530/}, abstract = {It has been proved to be extremely challenging for humans to program a robot to such a sufficient degree that it acts properly in a typical unknown human environment. This is especially true for a humanoid robot due to the very large number of redundant degrees of freedom and a large number of sensors that are required for a humanoid to work safely and effectively in the human environment. How can we address this fundamental problem? Motivated by human mental development from infancy to adulthood, we present a theory, an architecture, and some experimental results showing how to enable a robot to develop its mind automatically, through online, real time interactions with its environment. Humans mentally ?raise? the robot through ?robot sitting? and ?robot schools? instead of task-specific robot programming.} }