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Robots as Powerful Allies for the Study of Embodied Cognition from the Bottom Up
Matej Hoffmann, Rolf Pfeifer
A large body of compelling evidence has been accumulated demonstrating that embodiment - the agent's physical setup, including its shape, materials, sensors and actuators - is cons…
Measuring information transfer in a soft robotic arm
Kohei Nakajima, Nico Schmidt, Rolf Pfeifer
Soft robots can exhibit diverse behaviors with simple types of actuation by partially outsourcing control to the morphological and material properties of their soft bodies, which i…
Exploiting short-term memory in soft body dynamics as a computational resource
Kohei Nakajima, Tao Li, Helmut Hauser +1
Soft materials are not only highly deformable but they also possess rich and diverse body dynamics. Soft body dynamics exhibit a variety of properties, including nonlinearity, elas…
The implications of embodiment for behavior and cognition: animal and robotic case studies
Matej Hoffmann, Rolf Pfeifer
In this paper, we will argue that if we want to understand the function of the brain (or the control in the case of robots), we must understand how the brain is embedded into the p…