NICO - Neuro-Inspired COmpanion: A Developmental Humanoid Robot Platform for Multimodal Interaction

Interdisciplinary research, drawing from robotics, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, psychology, and cognitive science, is a cornerstone to advance the state-of-the-art in multimodal human-robot interaction and neuro-cognitive modeling. Research on neuro-cognitive models benefits from the embodiment of these models into physical, humanoid agents that possess complex, human-like sensorimotor capabilities for multimodal interaction with the real world. For this purpose, we develop and introduce NICO (Neuro-Inspired COmpanion), a humanoid developmental robot that fills a gap between necessary sensing and interaction capabilities and flexible design. This combination makes it a novel neuro-cognitive research platform for embodied sensorimotor computational and cognitive models in the context of multimodal interaction as shown in our results.

@InProceedings{KSMNHW17, 
 	 author =  {Kerzel, Matthias and Strahl, Erik and Magg, Sven and Navarro-Guerrero, Nicolás and Heinrich, Stefan and Wermter, Stefan},  
 	 title = {NICO - Neuro-Inspired COmpanion: A Developmental Humanoid Robot Platform for Multimodal Interaction}, 
 	 booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)},
 	 number = {},
 	 volume = {},
 	 pages = {113--120},
 	 year = {2017},
 	 month = {Aug},
 	 publisher = {},
 	 doi = {}, 
 }