Towards robot cultures?: Learning to imitate in a robotic arm test-bed with dissimilarly embodied agents

Interaction Studies

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 3-44

  Alissandrakis, Aris ^a   Nehaniv, Chrystopher L ^a   Dautenhahn, Kerstin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 28444481456     PISSN: 15720373     EISSN: 15720381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/is.5.1.03ali     Document Type: Article

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