The Language and Robots (LangRoBo) workshop is a Satellite Workshop on ECAI 2012 in Montpellier (August 27-31 2012). The call for papers is now open! Submissions are solicited on the following topics:

• Perception and motor control, grounded body models
• Behavioral control, evolving behaviors
• Computational formalisms for grounded rich semantics and grammar
• Language Game experiments
• Robust and open-ended human-robot and robot-robot interaction

Please visit  the workshop’s webpage for more information.

Recently a new book titled “Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution” (ed. L. Steels) in the series “Advances in Interaction Studies” has been published by John Benjamins. More information can be found here.

Luc Steels gave a talk at the TedxBrussels on “The Robot Culture”, where he introduces experiments on language grounding in real robots.