HUMANOBS: Humanoids that Learn Socio-communicative Skills by Observation

We address skill development as a fundamental architectural epiphenomenon: Learning happens through unique architectural constructs specified by developers, coupled with the ability of the architecture to automatically reconfigure itself to accommodate new skills through observation.

While we initially target socio-communicative skills, we intend to develop our architecture and imitation learning process in a generic way, so that the principles developed can be applied to other equally complicated tasks.

Within the framework of this project the learning will be supervised; however, our long-term goal is to provide humanoid agents and robots with full autonomy for learning such multimodal skills in dynamic social situations.