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Yiannis Demiris at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø has extended iCub's humanoid robot motor babbling program into an imitation learning system.

discusses humanoid robot research in the article , in which research of Dr Yiannis Demiris, head of Personal Robotics Lab at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø, is mentioned.

Your ability to interpret another person's actions using your own body schema is partly down to mirror neurons – cells in your brain that fire when you perform a given movement and when you see someone else perform it. Using this insight,  at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø . As a result, iCub can rapidly acquire new hand gestures, and learn sequences of actions involved in playing games or solving puzzles, simply by watching people perform these tasks. The system will have to be extended further to achieve empathy, so that iCub recognises and mirrors a person's emotional state as well as their movement.