ITALK Project

ITALK is a 4 year project (2008-2012) funded by the European Commission through Unit E5 "Cognitive Systems and Robotics" of the ICT. It aims to develop artificial agents and robots able to acquire complex behavioural, cognitive, and linguistic skills through individual and social learning. This will be achieved through experiments with the iCub humanoid robot to learn to handle and manipulate objects and tools autonomously, to cooperate and communicate with other robots and humans, and to adapt to changing internal, environmental, and social conditions.

Consortium

The consortium includes leading research laboratories in cognitive robotics and artificial intelligence.

Partners are:
* University of Plymouth – Adaptive Behaviour and Cognition Research Group - Plymouth – United Kingdom
* [http://www.iit.it Italian Institute of Technology] - Dept. of Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences - Genova, Italy
* University of Bielefeld – Applied Computer Science - Germany
* National Research Council – Robotics and Artificial Life - Rome - Italy
* University of Hertfordshire – Department of Computer Science - United Kingdom
* University of Southern Denmark – Department of Business Communication and Information Science - Denmark
* RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Behavior and Dynamic Cognition - Japan

External links

* [http://italkproject.org/ italk project website]