31 August 2026

Photo: Petr Neugebauer, FEL ČVUT

Our group has a new paper published in Science Robotics! Here's more information about the paper:

Title: Robot in a Crib: How a Playing Robot Helps Us Understand Sensorimotor Contingency Learning

Authors: Josua Spisak, Sergiu T. Popescu, Lukáš Rustler, Stefan Wermter, J. Kevin O'Regan, Matej Hoffmann

Summary: An iCub lying on its back in a crib learns to interact with its environment biologically inspired by infants. Our embodied model learns through a balanced trade-off between curiosity and prediction and manages to adjust its behavior towards specific conditions. We found that the emergent strategies aren't expressed as a single metric such as activity, but complex and dynamic strategies emerge that make use of spatial positions, environmental dynamics, and specific movements.

You can reach the full paper here (Science) and here (UHH).