Embodied Intelligence Laboratory

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Embodied Intelligence means that an intelligent agent that has a body.   Evidence of biological mental development has shown that an active body is indispensable for acquisition of intelligence.  Our research areas include, but not limited to:  human-computer interactions; image and signal processing;  pattern recognition; computer vision; content-based information retrieval; speech recognition,; tactile recognition; machine learning; biologically motivated models of cognition, learning, and development; autonomous navigation; language processing and understanding; reasoning; action; decision making, intelligent robots (construction, control and training) and artificial intelligence. 

SAIL

  • 13 DOF 
  • Main CPU Dual Pentium IV
    2.1 GHZ
    50 Giga SCSI  drives,
    1 Giga memory
  • Two CCD color cameras,
    auditory sensor, force sensors
  • SAIL developmental
    program for autonomous
    mental development
  • 202 Kg
Dav

Dav robot

  • 48 DOF 

  • Main CPU Quad Pentium, 2 Giga memory, 
    100 Giga SCSI drives

  • 11 Embedded processors

  • Two  color CCD cameras, auditory, laser range scanner, touch sensors

  • Wireless Internet 

  • Autonomous Mental Development

  • 242 Kg
Research:

oPublications
oPrintable one-sheet description of lab projects (old)
oIntegrated Hybrid Software Framework for Autonomous Mobile Robots (DARPA Funded Research)

Movies:

o Movie 1: Vision-guided indoor navigation and learning-based motion tracking (supervised learning) (MPEG 36.7MB),  
o Movie 2: Simple language acquisition and vision-guided indoor navigation (supervised, reinforcement and communicative learning) (MPEG 48.9 MB),
o Movie 3: Vision-guided outdoor navigation (supervised learning) (MPEG 16.8MB) 
o Movie 4: Audition-based action chaining (task transfer) (supervised and communicative learning) (MPEG 29.6MB)
o Movie 5: Integration of vision and audition in a dynamic world via online dialogue (supervised and communicative learning) (MPEG 26.4MB) 
o Movie 6: Dav starts its moves (programmed-in behaviors, not learned yet) (MPEG 26MB)
o Movie 7: Drawbridge experiment ("Innate" knowledge about object permanence or perceptual novelty instead?) (MPEG 24MB) 
o Movie 8: Learning early speech production (reinforcement learning in high dimensional action and state spaces) (MPEG 35mB)
o Movie 9: Dav performs collision avoidance (online-learning and attention-based approach to obstacle avoidance using range finder) (MPEG 14mB)

From the Popular Press:

o (Technology Review) Teachable Robots
o(Detroit Free Press) Possibilities Limitless for MSU's Thinking Robots
o(Lansing State Journal) Dav, A Robotic Soldier, or Just Maybe a Maid.  Another related article with a picture.
o(Exploratorium Magazine)  Bringing up Baby 
o (ACM TechNews, US) New Kind of Intelligent Robot Can Learn by Experience
o (KRN, US) Like a Child, "Smart" Robot Learns Gradually appeared in about 30 US newspapers including Detroit Free Press, Philadelphia Inquirer, and San Jose Mercury News.
o (Boiler Magazine, Italy) La mente del robot (The Mind of Robot)
o (TP, Singapore) Bring on the Intelligent Robot
o(Telepolis, Germany) Lernen wie die Kinder (Learn like a Child)
o (UPI, USA) Robot Learns Like a Child 
o (BBC, UK) Time for Real Intelligence? 

Events:

o INNS Symposia: New directions in Neural Networks (INNS-NNN) - Modeling the Brain and Nervous Systems , November 24-25, 2008, Auckland, NZ
o AMD Newsletter Vol 4, No. 2, October 2007
o AMD Newsletter Vol 4, No. 1, April 2007
o The 6th International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL'07), London, UK, July 11-13, 2007
o AMD Newsletter Vol 3, No. 2, November 2006
o Special Issue on Autonomous Mental Development in the International Journal of Humanoid Robotics
o IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine feature article, "From Neural Networks to the Brain: Autonomous Mental Development," August 2006
o Tutorial: Biologically Motivated Mental Architectures, WCCI 2006, Vancouver, BC Canada, July 16, 2006
o The Special Session on Autonomous Mental Development of WCCI 2006, Vancouver, BC Canada, July 16-21, 2006
o The 5th International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL'06), Bloomington, IN, USA, May 31 - June 3, 2006
o AMD Newsletter Vol 3, No. 1, April, 2006
o AMD Newsletter Vol 2, No. 2, October, 2005
o The 4th International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL'05), Osaka, Japan, July 19-21, 2005
o The 5th International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics, Nara, Japan, July 22-24, 2005
o AMD Newsletter Vol 2, No. 1, April, 2005
o The Establishment of the ICDL Governing Board, January 2005
o AMD Newsletter Vol 1, No. 2, October, 2004
o Special Issue on Autonomous Mental Development in the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. Papers due March 15, 2005
o Tutorial "Autonomous Mental Development by Robots and Animals" at Dept. of Computer Science, Wayne State University, Sept. 28, 2004
o 2005 AAAI Spring Symposiums, Developmental Robotics Symposium, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, March 21-23, 2005
o Creation of AMD Newsletter: the inaugural issue: AMD Newsletter Vol. 1, No. 1, April 2004
o Inaugural issue of IJHR, April 2004
o The 3rd International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL'04), San Diego, Oct. 20-22, 2004
o IJCNN'04 Tutorial: Autonomous Mental Development: A New Frontier for Computational Intelligence, July 25, 2004
o Creation of the Autonomous Mental Development Technical Committee of  the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Feb. 2004.  AMD TC web pages for 2004 - 2005. 
o IEEE Neural Networks Society changed its name to IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Feb. 2004
o IEEE Connections: "The brain is not only an information processor, but also ... ", 
     with the feature article: "Autonomous Mental Development: A New Frontier for Computational Intelligence." Nov. 2003
o ACCV'04 Tutorial: "Developmental Vision," Jan. 2004 
o One Book, One Community event:   Panel session.  "What Makes Us Human?" East Lansing Public Library, 7:00 p.m.  Oct. 2, 2003 
o New Journal: International Journal of Humanoid Robotics
o The 2nd International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 10-11, 2002
o The 2nd International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL'02), held at MIT, Cambridge, MA, June 12-15, 2002
o Science At The Edge Seminars, MSU, Fall 2001
o IJCAI-2001 Workshop on Reasoning with Uncertainty in Robotics, Seattle, Washington, August 4-5, 2001
o MSU Intelligent Robot Distinguished Lecture Series
o Creation of Mental Development Repository (www.mentaldev.org), Dec. 2000
o NSF/DARPA Workshop on Development and Learning (WDL), held at Michigan State University, April 2000

Software:

o A version of MILN is available (August, 2007).
o Software page added, versions of LCA and IHDR now available (6/20/06).

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Email inquiries to: ei@cse.msu.edu
Embodied Intelligence Laboratory
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Michigan State University

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Last updated: March, 2008