 | Sylvain Calinon (*1980) is a research scientist at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Dept of Advanced Robotics, and a visiting research scientist at the Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory (LASA), Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He received a PhD on robot programming by demonstration in 2007 from EPFL, which was awarded by the international Robotdalen scientific award, Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) award and EPFL-Press distinction. From 2007 to 2009, Dr Calinon was a postdoctoral research fellow at LASA. His research interests cover robot programming by demonstration, learning by imitation and human-robot interaction.
| |  | | Robot Programming by Demonstration (PbD) examines methods by which a robot learns new skills through human guidance. Also referred to as learning by imitation, tutelage or apprenticeship learning, PbD takes inspiration from the way humans learn new skills by imitation, thereby developing methods by which new skills can be transmitted to a robot. |
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