Towards Long-Term Memory for Social Robots: Proposing a New Challenge for the RoboCup@Home League
This work identifies a problem for social robotics in establishing coherent interactions, but it is incremental as it focuses on proposing a test rather than solving the memory challenge.
The paper highlights the challenge of long-term memory for social robots, proposing a new test for the RoboCup@Home League to address this issue, but does not report any experimental results or concrete numbers.
Long-term memory is essential to feel like a continuous being, and to be able to interact/communicate coherently. Social robots need long-term memories in order to establish long-term relationships with humans and other robots, and do not act just for the moment. In this paper this challenge is highlighted, open questions are identified, the need of addressing this challenge in the RoboCup@Home League with new tests is motivated, and a new test is proposed.