Sixth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics:
Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems
Dates: 20-22 September
2006
Location: Hopital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France
In
the past 5 years, the Epigenetic Robotics annual workshop has established
itself as a unique place where original research combining developmental
sciences, neuroscience, biology, and cognitive robotics and artificial
intelligence is being presented.
Epigenetic systems, either natural or artificial, share a prolonged
developmental process through which varied and complex cognitive and
perceptual structures emerge as a result of the interaction of an embodied
system with a physical and social environment.
Epigenetic robotics includes the two-fold goal of understanding biological
systems by the interdisciplinary integration between social and engineering
sciences and, simultaneously, that of enabling robots and artificial systems
to develop skills for any particular environment instead of programming them
for solving particular goals for the environment in which they happen to
reside.
Psychological theory and empirical evidence is being used to inform
epigenetic robotic models, and these models should be used as theoretical
tools to make experimental predictions in developmental psychology.
Sponsor:
NICT (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology),
Japan
Related Events:
On September 19, a day
before EpiRob 2006 , an international symposium on autism will be
organized at the Hopital La Salpétrière, the program is available
here
From September, 25 to
September, 30, the week just after EpiRob 2006, The Ninth
International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior
(SAB'06) (SAB’06) will be organized in Rome (http://www.sab06.org/)
Contact Information:
epirob06@csl.sony.fr
