Evo-devo-robo workshop program

Developmental robotics (also known as epigenetic robotics) is mainly concerned with modeling the postnatal development of cognitive behaviors in living systems, such as language, emotion, curiosity, anticipation, and social skills. While current work in this field has shown significant successes, we believe integrating research on developmental (including epigenetic and morphogenetic) robotics and evolutionary robotics is the natural next step. This workshop aims at bringing together evolutionary robotics and developmental robotics to form a new research area "evolutionary developmental robotics" (evo-devo-robo). The present paper contains the abstracts of the talks given by each of the seven invited speakers. These abstracts cover research in both fields and give an overview of the potential interactions between developmental and evolutionary robotics.