iCub in the Crib

20 June 2025

From our group, Josua Spisak visited the group of Matej Hoffman at the Department of Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, for an international multidisciplinary collaboration. During this collaboration, a long-used psychological experiment termed the "mobile-paradigm" was replicated with the iCub. The iCub was in lying position on its back beneath a moving toy and had to figure out how it can influence said toy. It used a neural network that learns through active exploration with a feedback loop (Paper). The experiment also appeared on the Czech television channel Věda-24, which can be found here .