Robots that incorporate social norms in their behaviors are seen as more supportive, friendly,and understanding. Since it is impossible to manually specify the most appropriate behavior for all possible situations, robots need to be able to learn it …
Allowing humans to communicate through natural language with robots requires connections between words and percepts. The process of creating these connections is called symbol grounding and has been studied for nearly three decades. Although many …
To enable natural human-robot collaboration robots need to understand natural language, which in turn requires mechanisms to ground language by connecting words to corresponding percepts. This paper, presents an unsupervised online grounding …