| Volume 26 Issue 1 - Publication Date: 1 January 2007 |
| Special Issue: The 12th International Symposium on Robotics
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| Scientific Issues Concerning
Androids |
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| H. Ishiguro Department
of Adaptive Machine Systems, Osaka University |
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| In the development of humanoids,
both the appearance and behavior of the robots are significant issues. However,
designing the robot’s appearance, especially to give it a humanoid
one, was always a role of industrial designers. To tackle the problem of
appearance and behavior, two approaches are necessary: one from robotics
and the other from cognitive science. The approach from robotics tries to
build very humanlike robots based on knowledge from cognitive science. The
approach from cognitive science uses the robot to verify hypotheses for
understanding humans. This cross-interdisciplinary framework is called android
science. This conceptual paper introduces developed androids and states
key issues in android science. |
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