Humanoid Robotics HUMANOID ROBOTS: A NEW KIND OF TOOL
Just as computer simulations of neural nets have been used to explore and refine models from neuroscience, we can use humanoid robots to investigate and validate models from cognitive science and behavioral science. We have used the following four examples of biological models in our research. Devel
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Just as computer simulations of neural nets have been used to explore and refine models from neuroscience, we can use humanoid robots to investigate and validate models from cognitive science and behavioral science. We have used the following four examples of biological models in our research. Development of reaching and grasping. Infants pass through a sequence of stages in learning hand-eye coordination.5 We have implemented a system for reaching to a visual target that follows this biological
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