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Play, Dreams and Imitation in Robota 171My dream is now that these studies will lead to some benefits for the childreninvolved, if only to make them smile during the game.AcknowledgmentsMany thanks to Jean-Daniel Nicoud, Auke Ijspeert, Andre Guignard, Olivier Carmona, YuriLopez de Meneses and Rene Beuchat at the Swiss Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL)and Alexander Colquhun and David Wise at the University of Edinburgh for their support duringthe development of the electronic and mechanical parts of the first prototypes of the Robotadolls. Many thanks to Marie-Pierre Lahalle at the CSI Museum, Kerstin Dautenhahn, SharonDemuth and Yvette Pena for their support in the diverse projects mentioned in this paper.Notes1. www.bandai.com.2. www.furby.com.3. www.irobot.com.4. www.mgae.com.5. mindstorms.lego.com.6. www.Didel.com, SA, CH.7. www.k-team.com.8. www.elan.fr.9. CSI, Paris, www.csi.fr.10. www.aurora-project.com.References[1] A. Billard. Imitation: a means to enhance learning of a synthetic proto-language in anautonomous robot. In C. Nehaniv and K. Dautenhahn, editors, Imitation in Animals andArtifacs. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2002 (In Press).[2] A. Billard and K. Dautenhahn. Experiments in social robotics: grounding and use ofcommunication in autonomous agents. Adaptive Behavior, special issue on simulation ofsocial agents, 7(3/4): 415–438, 1999.[3] A. Billard, K. Dautenhahn, and G. Hayes. Experiments on human-robot communicationwith robota, an imitative learning and communicating doll robot. In K. Dautenhahn andB. Edmonds, editors, Proceedings of Socially Situated Intelligence Workshop held withinthe Fifth Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB’98). Centre for PolicyModelling technical report series: No. CPM–98–38, Zurich, Switzerland, 1998.[4] A. Billard and G. Hayes. Drama, a connectionist architecture for control and learning inautonomous robots. Adaptive Behavior, 7(1): 35–64, 1999.[5] J. Cassell and H. Vilhjálmsson. Fully embodied conversational avatars: Making communicativebehaviors autonomous. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2(1):45–64, 1999.[6] K. Dautenhahn. Getting to know each other – artificial social intelligence for autonomousrobots. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 16:333–356, 1995.