Humanoid Robotics and Neuroscience

Gordon Cheng is the chair, founder, and director of the Institute for Cognitive Systems at the Technical University of Munich. From 2002–2008, he was the head of the Department of Humanoid Robotics and Computational Neuroscience, ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan. His research interests include humanoid robotics, cognitive systems, neuroengineering, real-time network robot control, brain–machine interfaces, biomimetics of human vision, computational neuroscience of vision, action understanding, human–robot interaction, active vision, mobile robot navigation, and object-oriented software construction.

• Section I: Humanoid Robotics Perspectives to Neuroscience. Humanoid Robotics and Neuroscience: Science, Engineering and Society. Humanoid Brain Science.Section II: Emulating the Neuro-mechanisms with Humanoid Robots. Hands, Dexterity and the Brain. Humanoid Action, Recognition and the Brain: Stochastic Information Processing that Unifies Recognition and Generation of Motion Patterns - Toward Symbolical Understanding of the Continuous World. Humanoid Vision and the Brain: Foveal Vision for Humanoid Robots. Humanoid Robotics Motor Learning and Neuroscience: Representation and Control of the Task Space in Humans and Humanoid Robots. Humanoid Locomotion and the Brain. Humanoid Motor Control: Dynamics and the Brain. Section III: Leaping forward: Toward Cognitive Humanoid Robots. Learning from Examples: Imitation Learning Emerging Cognition. Cognitive Developmental Robotics towards Humanoid Science: Towards Language: Vocalization by Cognitive Developmental Robotics.