How to teach a robot like a child ? This is the main issue of developmental robotics, an approach based on memory and reasoning in robotics, especially linked to social interaction through spoken language with a human. Maxime Petit, doctor in neurosciences and researcher at the LIRIS Laboratory of Ecole Centrale Lyon, gives in this talk an overwiew of the key challenges of the field.

Video by Yves JEGOU
Music by Jules BERROD



Maxime Petit received the M.Sc. degree in computer science from the University of Paris-Sud, and an engineering degree in biosciences from the National Institute of Applied Sciences Lyon, France, both in 2010. In 2014, he received a Ph.D. in Neurosciences from the National Institute of Science and Medical Research, in the Stem-Cell and Brain Research Institute in Lyon, within the Robot Cognition Laboratory. He was a Research Associate at the Personal Robotics Lab, Imperial College London (2014-2016) and is now a Postdoctoral researcher at the Ecole Centrale de Lyon, Laboratory of Computer Science for Image and Information Systems (LIRIS).

His research interests include developmental robotics, memory and reasoning in robotics, especially linked to social interaction through spoken language with a human.


This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx