Giorgio Metta

Design of the Robot-Cub (iCub) Head (2008)

Experimentation is crucial to human progress at all scales, from society as a whole to a young infant in its cradle. It allows us to elicit learning episodes suited to our own needs and limitations....

space (2008)

Giorgio Metta

attentional system for a humanoid robot exploiting

Ricardo Beira, Manuel Lopes, Miguel Praça, José Santos-victor, Re Bernardino, Giorgio Metta, ...

Abstract — This paper describes the design of a robot head, developed in the framework of the RobotCub project. This project goals consists on the design and construction of a humanoid robotic...

Abstract Towards Long-Lived Robot Genes (2008)

Paul Fitzpatrick, Giorgio Metta

Robot projects are often evolutionary dead ends, with the software and hardware they produce disappearing without trace afterwards. In humanoid robotics, a small field with an avid appetite for novel...

Development and imitation in a humanoid robot (2008)

Sensori-Motor Development in Biological and Artificial Systems: On the Ontogenesis of Goal-Directed Reaching (2007)

The Problem: It is believed that one of the distinguishing skills of homo sapiens sapiens is that of learning from imitation while it is less clear whether other primates are capable of true...

Giorgio Metta, Giulio S, Jürgen Konczak, Giulio Sandini

The aim of the present paper is to propose that the adoption of a framework of biological development is suitable for the construction of artificial systems. We will argue that a developmental...

Better Vision Through Experimental Manipulation (2007)

Visuo-acoustic Cues Integration in an (2007)

Experimentation is crucial to human progress at all scales, from society as a whole to a young infant in its cradle. It allows us to elicit learning episodes suited to our own needs and limitations....

Objects (2007)

Paul Fitzpatrick, Giorgio Metta, Lorenzo Natale, Sajit Rao, Giulio S

Within the field of Neuro Robotics we are driven primarily by the desire to understand how humans and animals live and grow and solve every day’s problems. To this aim we adopted a “learn by...

Artificial Developing Agent, Lorenzo Natale, Giorgio Metta, Giulio Sandini

Sound localization has been widely studied with the aim of building artificial systems as well as understanding the mechanism underlying the same process in the biological systems. Nevertheless, in...

Claudio Castellini, Francesco Orabona, Giorgio Metta, Giulio Sandini

Abstract—One of the most distinguishing features of cognitive systems is the ability to predict the future course of actions and the results of ongoing behaviors, and in general to plan actions...

Understanding mirror neurons: a bio-robotic approach. Interaction studies (2006)

Giorgio Metta, Giulio S, Lorenzo Natale, Laila Craighero, Luciano Fadiga

This paper reports about our investigation on action understanding in the brain. We review recent results of the neurophysiology of the mirror system in the monkey. Based on these observations we...

Understanding mirror neurons: a bio-robotic approach. Interaction studies (2006)

Giorgio Metta, Giulio S, Lorenzo Natale, Laila Craighero, Luciano Fadiga

This paper reports about our investigation on action understanding in the brain. We are taking a three-pronged approach based on some recent results of the neurophysiology, on the modeling from...

The RobotCub Approach to the Development of Cognition (2005)

Metta, Giorgio, Vernon, David, Sandini, Giulio

This paper elaborates on the workplan of an initiative in embodied cognition: RobotCub. Our goal here is to provide background and to motivate our long-term plan of empirical research including brain...

The RobotCub Approach to the Development of Cognition (2005)

Metta, Giorgio, Vernon, David, Sandini, Giulio

This paper elaborates on the workplan of an initiative in embodied cognition: RobotCub. Our goal here is to provide background and to motivate our long-term plan of empirical research including brain...

The RobotCub Approach to the Development of Cognition (2005)

Metta, Giorgio, Vernon, David, Sandini, Giulio

This paper elaborates on the workplan of an initiative in embodied cognition: RobotCub. Our goal here is to provide background and to motivate our long-term plan of empirical research including brain...

Contents (2005)

Peter Auer, Aude Billard, Horst Bischof, Isabelle Bloch, Pia Boettcher, Heinrich Bülthoff, ...

Preface iii Revision History iv Acknowledgements v

Introduction: The Fourth International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics (2004)

Berthouze, Luc, Metta, Giorgio

As in the previous editions, this workshop is trying to be a forum for multi-disciplinary research ranging from developmental psychology to neural sciences (in its widest sense) and robotics...

Introduction: The Fourth International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics (2004)

Berthouze, Luc, Metta, Giorgio

As in the previous editions, this workshop is trying to be a forum for multi-disciplinary research ranging from developmental psychology to neural sciences (in its widest sense) and robotics...

Introduction: The Fourth International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics (2004)

Berthouze, Luc, Metta, Giorgio

As in the previous editions, this workshop is trying to be a forum for multi-disciplinary research ranging from developmental psychology to neural sciences (in its widest sense) and robotics...

Artificial Development Approach to Presence Technologies Deliverable Item 5.1 (2004)

Responsible Person, Giorgio Metta

System’s architecture Short Description: The main objective of this document is to provide a set of design principles that allow our research into developmental robotics, developmental psychology,...

Learning to Track Colored Objects with Log-Polar Vision (2004)

Giorgio Metta, Antonios Gasteratos, Gulio Sandini, Ini A

An approach bringing together space-variant vision through a simple color segmentation technique and learning is presented. The proposed approach is employed to control the movement of a 5 degree of...

The Whole World in Your Hand: Active and Interactive Segmentation (2003)

Arsenio, Artur, Fitzpatrick, Paul, Kemp, Charles C., Metta, Giorgio

Object segmentation is a fundamental problem in computer vision and a powerful resource for development. This paper presents three embodied approaches to the visual segmentation of objects. Each...

The Whole World in Your Hand: Active and Interactive Segmentation (2003)

Arsenio, Artur, Fitzpatrick, Paul, Kemp, Charles C., Metta, Giorgio

Object segmentation is a fundamental problem in computer vision and a powerful resource for development. This paper presents three embodied approaches to the visual segmentation of objects. Each...

The Whole World in Your Hand: Active and Interactive Segmentation (2003)

Arsenio, Artur, Fitzpatrick, Paul, Kemp, Charles C., Metta, Giorgio

Object segmentation is a fundamental problem in computer vision and a powerful resource for development. This paper presents three embodied approaches to the visual segmentation of objects. Each...

Early integration of vision and manipulation (2003)

Giorgio Metta, Giorgio Metta, Paul Fitzpatrick, Paul Fitzpatrick

Vision and manipulation are inextricably intertwined in the primate brain. Tantalizing results from neuroscience are shedding light on the mixed motor and sensory representations used by the brain...

Grounding vision through experimental manipulation (2003)

Paul Fitzpatrick, Giorgio Metta

Experimentation is crucial to human progress at all scales, from society as a whole to a young infant in its cradle. It allows us to elicit learning episodes suited to our own needs and limitations....

Learning about objects through action: Initial steps towards artificial cognition (2003)

Paul Fitzpatrick, Giorgio Metta, Lorenzo Natale, Sajit Rao, Giulio S

Abstract — Within the field of Neuro Robotics we are driven primarily by the desire to understand how humans and animals live and grow and solve every day’s problems. To this aim we adopted a...

The whole world in your hand: Active and interactive segmentation (2003)

Artur Arsenio, Paul Fitzpatrick, Charles Kemp, Giorgio Metta

This paper presents three approaches to object segmentation, a fundamental problem in computer vision. Each approach is aided by the presence of a hand or arm in the proximity of the object to be...

The whole world in your hand: Active and interactive segmentation (2003)

Artur Arsenio, Paul Fitzpatrick, Charles C. Kemp, Giorgio Metta

Object segmentation is a fundamental problem in computer vision and a powerful resource for development. This paper presents three embodied approaches to the visual segmentation of objects. Each...

Learning about objects through action: Initial steps towards artificial cognition (2003)

Paul Fitzpatrick, Giorgio Metta, Lorenzo Natale, Sajit Rao, Giulio S

Abstract — Within the field of Neuro Robotics we are driven primarily by the desire to understand how humans and animals live and grow and solve every day’s problems. To this aim we adopted a...

Better Vision Through Manipulation (2002)

Better Vision Through Manipulation (2002)

For the purposes of manipulation, we would like to know what parts of the environment are physically coherent ensembles - that is, which parts will move together, and which are more or less...

Better Vision Through Manipulation (2002)

For the purposes of manipulation, we would like to know what parts of the environment are physically coherent ensembles - that is, which parts will move together, and which are more or less...

For the purposes of manipulation, we would like to know what parts of the environment are physically coherent ensembles - that is, which parts will move together, and which are more or less...

For the purposes of manipulation, we would like to know what parts of the environment are physically coherent ensembles – that is, which parts will move together, and which are more or less...

Towards manipulation-driven vision (2002)

For the purposes of manipulation, we would like to know what parts of the environment are physically coherent ensembles – that is, which parts will move together, and which are more or less...

Paul M. Fitzpatrick, Giorgio Metta

For the purposes of manipulation, we would like to know what parts of the environment are physically coherent ensembles – that is, which parts will move together, and which are more or less...

Development of auditory-evoked reflexes: Visuo-acoustic cues integration in a binocular head (2002)

Lorenzo Natale, Giorgio Metta, Giulio S

The goal of this paper is to propose a biologically plausible, functional model of the acquisition of visual, acoustic and multi-modal motor responses. Within this context visual and acoustic spatial...

Giorgio Metta, Paul Fitzpatrick, Giorgio Metta, Paul Fitzpatrick

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Vision and manipulation are inextricably intertwined in the primate brain. Tantalizing results from neuroscience are shedding light on the mixed motor and sensory representations used by the brain...

Towards manipulation-driven vision (2002)

For the purposes of manipulation, we would like to know what parts of the environment are physically coherent ensembles – that is, which parts will move together, and which are more or less...

Paul M. Fitzpatrick, Giorgio Metta

For the purposes of manipulation, we would like to know what parts of the environment are physically coherent ensembles – that is, which parts will move together, and which are more or less...

Development of the "Mirror System": A Computational Model (2002)

Giorgio Metta, Lorenzo Natale, Satyajit Rao, Giulio Sandini, Giulio S

bout the success or failure of the manipulative action, e.g. if grasping of a cup is successful then associate its description to the visual and motor description of the action of grasping the cup....

Sensorimotor interaction in a developing robot (2001)

Giorgio Metta, Giulio S, Lorenzo Natale

Abstract * We propose that the development of causality can be seen as a primitive for understanding and constructing complex systems either biological or artificial. Furthermore, we put forward a...

Development in artificial systems (2001)

Giorgio Metta, Giulio Sandini, Lorenzo Natale, Riccardo Manzotti, Francesco Panerai

AI and robotics tackled the problem of building autonomous creatures (human-like sometimes) from many different directions. In spite of this, our systems are still primitive, little adaptive and...

Development: Is it the right way toward humanoid robotics (2000)

Giorgio Metta, Riccardo Manzotti, Francesco Panerai, Giulio S

Abstract: The studies presented in this paper stem from an interdisciplinary approach covering aspects of “brain sciences” and robotics, with the goal of answering several questions, namely: is...

Visuo-inertial Stabilization in Space-variant Binocular Systems (1999)

Francesco Panerai, Giorgio Metta, Giulio Sandini, Giulio S, Ini B

Stabilization of gaze is a major functional prerequisite for robots exploring the environment. The main reason for a #steady-image" requirement, is to prevent the robot's own motion to...

A Developmental Approach to Visually-Guided Reaching in Artificial Systems (1999)

Giorgio Metta, Giulio S, Jürgen Konczak, Giulio Sandini

The aim of the present paper is to propose that the adoption of a framework of biological development is suitable for the construction of artificial systems. We will argue that a developmental...

Development of the "Mirror System": A Computational Model (1998)

Metta, Giorgio, Natale, Lorenzo, Rao, Satyajit, Sandini, Giulio

The authors are studying the development of the mirror system from a computational perspective with the ultimate goal of realizing a physical implementation. They are using an anthropomorphic robot...

Towards Manipulation-Driven Vision (1998)

Fitzpatrick, Paul M., Metta, Giorgio

For the purposes of manipulation, the authors would like to know what parts of the environment are physically coherent ensembles, that is, which parts will move together, and which parts are more or...

The Whole World in Your Hand: Active and Interactive Segmentation (1998)

Arsenio, Artur, Fitzpatrick, Paul, Kemp, Charles C., Metta, Giorgio

Object segmentation is a fundamental problem in computer vision and a powerful resource for development. This paper presents three embodied approaches to the visual segmentation of objects. Each...

Better Vision Through Manipulation (1998)