Developmental robotics is a novel approach to the design of robots that takes direct inspiration from developmental mechanisms studied in children by psychologists and cognitive neuroscientists. 
The RobotDoc Collegium
The RobotDoC Collegium is a multi-national doctoral training network for the interdisciplinary training on developmental cognitive robotics. The RobotDoc Fellows will develop advanced expertise of domain-specific robotics research skills and of complementary transferrable skills for careers in academia and industry. They will acquire hands-on experience through experiments with the open-source humanoid robot iCub, complemented by other existing robots available in the network’s laboratories.
The Collegium will employ 16 Marie Curie Fellows, of which 13 will be PhD students (Early Career Researchers) and 3 postdocs (Experience Researcher). It also has over 15 Associate Fellows.
Research training will be centred on a series of training milestones such as two summer schools, international conferences and interdisciplinary research methods workshops. Fellows will also be directly involved and closely supervised for research in novel projects on embodied cognition, motivational and affective mechanisms, neuro-robotics modelling, developmental psychology, sensorimotor learning, social interaction and higher-order cognitive modelling. An individual coaching programme will support each Fellow’s training progress as well as professional and personal enhancement through individualised skill development plans.
Travel Bursaries
Cognitive Robotics Research Methods Workshop, 9-11 March 2010
Thanks to the support of the EUCogII (eucognition.org) network, 6 Travel Bursaries were awarded to 6 PhD students external to the RobotDoc Collegium. The programme of the workshop is availble here.