We regret to inform you that the “Language Grounding in Robots” workshop has been cancelled due to an insufficient amount of high-quality submissions.

Description of the Workshop

Robust and open-ended language grounding in robots is an extraordinarily challenging research topic. State-of-the-art methodology demands a whole systems approach for modeling, experimentation, and analysis. This workshop brings together experts from different subfields, covering embodiment, sensorimotor processing, perception, high-level knowledge processing and representation, reasoning and communication, system integration, and more.

Within a prototypical experiment on language grounding, robots try to achieve communicative goals through language, e.g., one robot may ask another to perform a certain action, or draw its attention to an object/event in the scene (see Figure on top of the screen). The goal of this workshop is to discuss how a whole-systems-approach can be an all-encompassing framework which:

1. •(re-)integrates the findings of the aforementioned subfields
   

2. •leads to radical breakthroughs in all subfields
   

3. •makes technology transfer among subfields more efficient
   

4. •ensures compatibility and repeatability of results
   

The workshop will therefore appreciate partial solutions in the aforementioned subfields of interest, if they have already been (or at least could potentially be) integrated with other processing modules on a real robot. We will highly encourage papers and presentations which include working examples and real-world demonstrations.

Organizers

1. •Luc Steels (ICREA, Institute for Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC), Barcelona - Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris)
   

2. •Manfred Hild (Neurorobotics Research Laboratory, Humboldt University Berlin - Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris)
   

3. •Remi van Trijp (Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris)
   

Program committee

1. •Rachid Alami (LAAS, Toulouse)
   

2. •Michael Beetz (Technische Universität München)
   

3. •Tony Belpaeme (University of Plymouth)
   

4. •Fredrik Heintz (Linköpings Universitet)
   

5. •Manfred Hild (Neurorobotics Research Laboratory, Humboldt University Berlin - Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris)
   

6. •Marco Mirolli (ISTC-CNR, Rome)
   

7. •Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (INRIA, Bordeaux)
   

8. •Luis Seabra Lopes (Universidade de Aveiro)
   

9. •Luc Steels (ICREA, Institute for Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC), Barcelona - Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris)
   

10. •Remi van Trijp (Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris)
    

Contact

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