Hideki Kozima and Hiroyuki Yano

Introduction Shift from intentional stance to design stance Attribute ability to the designers not the robot. Imagine a robot that has learned and is still learning human communicative behaviour. social intelligence should have an ontogenetic history that is open to further development. Infanoid developed as a proposed solution.

Infanoid Any socially communicative intelligence must have a naturalistic embodiment The robot is structurally and functionally similar to human sensori-motor systems. The same kinematic structure of the upper body of a three-year-old human infant. Provide Infanoid with the basic physical skills of 6-to-9-month-olds

Empathy Communication enables us to predict and control other people's behaviour to some degree Use empathy to derive intangible intentions from the physically observable behaviour of Humans Authors state: a robot must acquire intentionality to be capable of goal-directed spontaneous behaviour.

Identity To understand other people's intentions, a robot that has acquired intentionality has to identify itself with others. Joint Attention the act of sharing each other's attentional focus. creates a shared context in front of participants Based on Instinct and Learning. Action capture enables robot to indirectly experience others behaviour

Communication The ability to identify with others allows one to acquire an empathetic understanding of someone else’ intention Key to human communication and Imitative Learning.

Claims “able to predict and control our behaviour” “cooperate or compete with in our social activities” “Experience a linguistic and cultural environment” “needs to understand the symbolic nature of language” “imagining of it self in the position of the Human, thereby understanding how they feel and act”

Conclusion A lot of work to do, but an impressive start. No detail of the learning undertaken. Quite Vague and Hopeful More of a demonstration of problems to be addressed in future, through a working demo.