Purposive learning: Robot reasoning about the meanings of human activities

Sci Robot. 2019 Jan 16;4(26):eaav1530. doi: 10.1126/scirobotics.aav1530.

¹ Institute for Cognitive Systems, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Munich, Arcisstrasse 21, 80333 München, Germany. gordon@tum.de.
² Institute for Cognitive Systems, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Munich, Arcisstrasse 21, 80333 München, Germany.
³ Institute for Artificial Intelligence, University of Bremen, Am Fallturm 1, 28359 Bremen, Germany.
⁴ School of Information Science and Technology and Next Generation Artificial Intelligence Research Center, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan.

Abstract

Reasoning about the meanings of human activities is a powerful way for robots to learn from humans.