Electrical Engineering-Systems Dept.

סמינר מחלקתי

You are invited to attend a lecture by

Dr. Goren Gordon

(Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science)

on the subject:

Hierarchical Curiosity Loops – Model, Behavior and Robotics

Developmental robotics is a new emerging field, in which robots autonomously learn about themselves and their environment, without external teachers. While this seems a formidable challenge, this trait is ubiquitous in biology: every animal’s pup and every human infant accomplish this task in their first few months of life. Furthermore, biological agents’ curiosity actively drives them to explore and experiment in order to expedite their learning progress. To bridge the gap between biological and artificial agents, a formal mathematical theory of curiosity was developed that attempts to explain observed biological behaviors and enable curiosity emergence in robots. In the talk, I will present the hierarchical curiosity loops model, its application to rodent’s exploratory behavior and its implementation in a fully autonomously learning and behaving reaching robot.