Humans naturally share knowledge by telling stories. This is a form of knowledge exchange we engage in right from early childhood, and over time we learn to recall, order and orga...
We address the problem of collecting a database of "common-sense facts" using a computer game. Informally, a common-sense fact is a true statement about the world that i...
Understanding language requires both linguistic knowledge and knowledge about how the world works, also known as common-sense knowledge. We attempt to characterize the kinds of co...
Abstract. Unlike people, household robots cannot rely on commonsense knowledge when accomplishing everyday tasks. We believe that this is one of the reasons why they perform poorly...
To be autonomous, intelligent robots must learn the foundations of commonsense knowledge from their own sensorimotor experience in the world. We describe four recent research resu...
Benjamin Kuipers, Patrick Beeson, Joseph Modayil, ...