Modeling Social Interaction for Baby in Simulated Environment for Developmental Robotics

TL;DR

This paper introduces SEDRo, a simulated environment modeling a baby's developmental stages and social interactions, aiming to advance developmental robotics by incorporating experiences from prenatal to 12 months post-birth.

Contribution

The paper presents SEDRo, a novel simulation platform that captures a comprehensive range of early developmental experiences and social interactions for robotic agents.

Findings

Simulated environment covers prenatal to 12 months post-birth stages.

Includes social interaction with a mother character.

Incorporates developmental psychology experiments.

Abstract

Task-specific AI agents are showing remarkable performance across different domains. But modeling generalized AI agents like human intelligence will require more than current datasets or only reward-based environments that don't include experiences that an infant gathers throughout its initial stages. In this paper, we present Simulated Environment for Developmental Robotics (SEDRo). It simulates the environments for a baby agent that a human baby experiences throughout the pre-born fetus stage to post-birth 12 months. SEDRo also includes a mother character to provide social interaction with the agent. To evaluate different developmental milestones of the agent, SEDRo incorporates some experiments from developmental psychology.