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Kaipa, Krishnanand

"Infants interleave self-directed exploration, imitative interactions, and learning from others' mistakes to develop increasingly complex skills." Kaipas' broad research is focused on leveraging these ideas to create robots that learn from, and work side-by-side with, humans. His research projects combine insights from imitation learning, social robotics, human robot collaboration, and other related fields to design robots that cater to diverse application areas like manufacturing and assistive robotics. Kaipas's long term scientific goal is to use the results of such transdisciplinary research as probes to examine, and understand, the mechanisms of embodied cognition at closer resolutions.