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The RUBI project: a progress report

Authors:

Javier R. Movellan,

Fumihide Tanaka,

Cynthia Taylor,

Micah EckhardtAuthors Info & Claims

HRI '07: Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction

Pages 333 - 339

https://doi.org/10.1145/1228716.1228761

Published: 10 March 2007 Publication History

Abstract

The goal of the RUBI project is to accelerate progress in the development of social robots by addressing the problem at multiple levels, including the development of a scientific agenda, research methods, formal approaches, software, and hardware. The project is based on the idea that progress will go hand-in-hand with the emergence of a new scientific discipline that focuses on understanding the organization of adaptive behavior in real-time within the environments in which organisms operate. As such, the RUBI project emphasizes the process of design by immersion, i.e., embedding scientists, engineers and robots in everyday life environments so as to have these environments shape the hardware, software, and scientific questions as early as possible in the development process. The focus of the project so far has been on social robots that interact with 18 to 24 month old toddlers as part of their daily activities at the Early Childhood Education Center at the University of California, San Diego. In this document we present an overall assessment of the lessons and progress through year two of the project.

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