A Dual Interaction Perspective for Robot Cognition: Grasping as a "Rosetta Stone"

Helge J. Ritter, Robert Haschke, Jochen J. Steil

Abstract: One of the major milestones to higher cognition may be the ability to shape movements that involve very complex interactions with the environment. Based on this hypothesis we argue that the study and technical replication of manual intelligence may serve as a “Rosetta Stone” for designing cognitive robot architectures. The development of such architectures will strongly benefit if improvements to their interaction capabilities in the task domain become paired with efficient modes of interaction in the domain of configuring and restructuring such systems. We find that this “dual interaction perspective” is closely connected with the challenge of integrating holistic and symbolic aspects of representations.