| Date: | 2015, February 4 |
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| Author: | Thosar, Madhura |
| Title: | Creative Use of Tools in Robotics |
Tool-usage is considered as one aspect of intelligence. Humans as well as animals make extensive use of tools in conventional and unconventional ways to solve tasks. On the other hand robots are still restricted in a way they use tools. It is common among humans and animals to be creative with a tool by using it in an unconventional way when a conventional tool is not available to solve a task. Although robots possess primitive abilities of humans like reaching, grasping and manipulating tools to solve a predefined task, the creativity in using tools is very limited or even absent. The question I would like to address in my PhD research is, given the tool manipulation abilities, can a robot creatively use a tool to solve a task when a conventional tool is not available?