The robot in the crib: A developmental analysis of imitation skills in infants and robots

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 43-53

  Demiris, Yiannis ^a   Meltzoff, Andrew ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

'like me' hypothesis; Active intermodal matching; Developmental robotics; Imitation; Robot learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949215776     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: 15227219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.543     Document Type: Article

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