Bootstrapping is a widely employed technique in the process of building highly complex systems such as microprocessors, language compilers, and computer operating systems. It could play an even more prominent role in the creation of computation systems capable of supporting intelligent agent

Bootstrapping is a widely employed technique in the process of building highly complex systems such as microprocessors, language compilers, and computer operating systems. It could play an even more prominent role in the creation of computationsystems capableof supporting intelligent agent

researchers have long wished to build robots and their cousins called agents that seem to think feel and live These are creatures with whom you d want to share some of your life as with a companion or a social pet For instance in his

Trust is a judgement of unquestionable utility — as humans we use it every day of our lives. However, trust has suffered from an imperfect understanding, a plethora of definitions, and informal use in the literature and in everyday life. It is common to say “I trust you, ” but what does that mean

This paper describes the software architecture of an autonomous tour-guide/tutor robot. This robot was recently deployed in the “Deutsches Museum Bonn, ” were it guided hundreds of visitors through the museum during a six-day deployment period. The robot’s control software integrates low

using surveys of subjective well-being elicit reports of global life satisfaction or happiness. In the World Values Survey, for example, respondents in 81 countries are asked, "All things considered, how satisfied are you with your life as a whole these days?" The General Social Survey (GSS

agents in the real environment we will show that: (a) an accurate model of a particular robot-environment dynamics can be built by sampling the real world through the sensors and the actuators of the robot; (b) the performance gap between the obtained behaviors in simulated and real environment may

can yield benefits on three counts. First, it can provide a real-life test of current theory and research on intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Second, because the proposed model deals with an unfolding sequence, it may serve to integrate existing knowledge on intrinsic and extrinsic motivation

This paper describes Soccer Server, a simulator of the game of soccer designed as a test-bench for evaluating multi-agent systems and cooperative algorithms. In real life, successful soccer teams require many qualities, such as basic ball control skills, the ability to carry out plans, and teamwork

and that children might learn from robots as they learn from other children. In this article, this idea is studied in an 18-day field trial held at a Japanese elementary school. Two English-speaking "Robovie" robots interacted with first- and sixth-grade pupils at the perimeter of their respective