Humanoid Robots: Learning to Behave: UKACC and IET Tustin Lecture 2009

ASIMO has become an icon for Honda’s advanced life-like intelligence research and is the culmination of more than 20-years of continuous development. The Honda Research Institute Europe (HRI-EU) is known as the Centre of Excellence for intelligent systems research and the developments on the ASIMO project.

Prof. Dr. Edgar K?rner has been the President of the Honda Research Institute Europe since 2003. He studied and then served as an assistant professor/senior staff researcher and established the bionics research laboratory at the Ilmenau Institute of Technology, Germany. Here he received his Dr.-Ing. in biomedical cybernetics in 1977 and the Dr. Sci. in biocybernetics in 1984. From 1984 to 1987, he joined the Bioholonics Project of JRDC (Tokyo). In 1992 he joined Honda R&D’s Wako Research Center near Tokyo, focusing as a chief scientist on the brain-like computation research. In 1997 he started research at Honda R&D Europe, where he served as an executive vice president and head of the Future Technology Research Division. The former “Future Technology Research Division” of Honda R&D Europe (Deutschland) GmbH re-established as a new company on 1 January 2003, the Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH (HRI-EU). Prof. Dr. Korner’s research interest covers brain-like intelligence, with a special focus on self-referential control architectures, self-organisation of knowledge representation, and autonomous robots.