scholarly journals Flexibility in Problem Solving: Analogical Transfer of Tool Use in Toddlers Is Immune to Delay

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Bobrowicz ◽  
Felicia Lindström ◽  
Marcus Lindblom Lovén ◽  
Elia Psouni
2009 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 507-513 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Kuba ◽  
Ruth A. Byrne ◽  
Gordon M. Burghardt
Keyword(s):  
Tool Use ◽  

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lakshmi Nair ◽  
Sonia Chernova

Robots in the real world should be able to adapt to unforeseen circumstances. Particularly in the context of tool use, robots may not have access to the tools they need for completing a task. In this paper, we focus on the problem of tool construction in the context of task planning. We seek to enable robots to construct replacements for missing tools using available objects, in order to complete the given task. We introduce the Feature Guided Search (FGS) algorithm that enables the application of existing heuristic search approaches in the context of task planning, to perform tool construction efficiently. FGS accounts for physical attributes of objects (e.g., shape, material) during the search for a valid task plan. Our results demonstrate that FGS significantly reduces the search effort over standard heuristic search approaches by ≈93% for tool construction.


1998 ◽  
Vol 36 (7) ◽  
pp. 581-589 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georg Goldenberg ◽  
Sonja Hagmann

Author(s):  
Jay Schulkin

Continues the thread of our anchoring to objects and others in the organization of action and in sport in particular; social organization, human development, pedagogy, and tool use. I start with the visual system, so central to human evolution and our practice of most sports. I will then continue with problem solving and sport, throwing, swimming and rowing; biogical spreading through sports and sports impacting physical and mental capabilities. Human evolutionary history shows that throwing is a feature of our species and that to throw well was to survive. The capacity to store energy and release it with control, rapidity, and flexibility probably emerged with Homo erectus about 2 million years ago, along with greater flexibility of the torso; the infusion of energy vital for hunting and running emerged with shoulder flexibility and control over the elbow and wrist.


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