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How can real robots with many degrees of freedom - without previous knowledge of themselves or their environment - act and use the resulting observations to efficiently develop the ability to generate a wide set of useful behaviours? This thesis presents a novel framework that e…

This thesis investigates the role of exploratory play in the development of the basic knowledge of actions and objects involved in play with artificial agents. We developed a learning system, Dev-PSchema, inspired from the sensorimotor stage and schema mechanism of Piaget's theo…

Robotics agents are meant to play an increasingly larger role in our everyday lives. To be successfully integrated in our environment, robots will need to develop and display adaptive, robust, and socially suitable behaviours. To tackle these issues, the robotics research commun…