On the use of cognitive artifacts for developmental learning in a humanoid robot

The goal of this work is to boost the robot's object recognition capabilities through the use of learning aids. We describe methods to enable learning on a humanoid robot using learning aids such as books, drawing material, boards or other children toys. Visual properties of objects are learned and inserted into a recognition scheme, which is then applied to acquire new object representations - we propose learning through developmental stages. We present experimental evaluation to corroborate the theoretical framework.