Epigenetic Robotics is an interdiciplinary research area with the goal of understanding biological systems by the integration between neuroscience, developmental psychology and engineering sciences. Epigenetic systems are characterized by a prolonged developmental process through which varied and complex cognitive and perceptual structures emerge as a result of the interaction of an embodied system with a physical and social environment. An additional goal is to enable robots to autonomously develop skills for any particular environment instead of programming them for a specific environment. Neuroscience is a field of study which deals with the structure, function, development, genetics, biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology and pathology of the nervous system. ... Developmental psychology is the scientific study of age related changes in behavior across the life span. ... Engineering is the application of science to the needs of humanity. ... Development has meaning in several contexts: Biological development of embryos in the context of developmental biology Child development or post-natal human development (pediatrics, etc) Personal development (New Age self improvement) Economic development in economics and international relations Human development - to improve the health, education and range of choices of... The term cognition is used in several different loosely related ways. ... In psychology and the cognitive sciences, perception is the process of acquiring, interpreting, selecting, and organizing sensory information. ... Emergence is the process of deriving some new and coherent structures, patterns and properties in a complex system. ... Embodiment is the way in which human (or any other animals) psychology arises from the brains and bodys physiology. ... (Redirected from Robots) For other uses, see Robot (disambiguation). ... Skill is human (usually learned) ability to perform actions. ...

Epigenetic robotics is closely related to developmental robotics. Developmental Robotics (DevRob), sometimes called epigenetic robotics, is a methodology that uses metaphors from developmental psychology to develop controllers for autonomous robots. ...

External links

• International Workshop on Epigentic Robotics (http://www.epigenetic-robotics.org/)
• International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) (http://www.icdl05.org/)