EMCSR'96 Plenary Lecture
Friday, April 12, 1996, 9:30 am
University of Vienna, Lecture Room 47
Prof.Dr.Luc STEELS
Artificial Intelligence Lab
Free University of Brussels
Belgium
Robots and the Origins of Intelligence
The talk reviews work going on at the VUB AI Laboratory in Brussels
concerned with understanding the origins of intelligence using experi-
ments with robotic agents and software agents. I will go into detail
on two experiments: one that shows how agents progressively build up
behavioural complexity in interaction with a physically realised
challenging ecosystem, the second shows how agents are able to develop
their own language and meaning. The talk is illustrated with videos
and live computer demonstrations.