Developmental robotics: Manifesto and application

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 361, Issue 1811, 2003, Pages 2187-2206

  Elliott, Terry ^a   Shadbolt, Nigel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activity dependent competition; Computer vision; Khepera robot; Koala robot; Neuronal development; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142054712     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2003.1250     Document Type: Article

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