We study how people perceive, understand and anticipate one another, and we use what we learn to develop robots that can do the same. These efforts feed each other: robots help us test ideas about human cognition, and human cognition guides how we develop robots. Our goal is robots that are humane not in how they look, but in how they think and interact.
To do this, we bring together robotics, cognitive science, philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence.