Testing piaget´s ideas on robots: Assimilation and accommodation using the semantics of actions

The proposed framework addresses the problem of implementing a high level “psychological” learning mechanism at the level of machines. The learning framework is bootstrapped with the semantic relations (SECs) between observed manipulations without using any prior knowledge about actions or objects while being fully grounded at the sensory level (image segments). With the concept of employing the semantics of actions and linking with the syntactic action descriptive information, a growing (cumulative) memory of actions can be efficiently developed in a machine similar to processes suggested for human learning by the psychologist Jean Piaget in 1953 [4].