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 results that show how a robot learning agent can bootstrap from the ``blooming buzzing confusion'' of the pixel level to a higher-level ontology including distinctive states, places, actions, and objects.

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In Developmental Robotics, AAAI Spring Symposium Series 2005.

@inproceedings{kuipers:dr05, title={Bootstrap Learning of Foundational Representations.}, author={Benjamin Kuipers and Patrick Beeson and Joseph Modayil and Jefferson Provost}, booktitle={Developmental Robotics, AAAI Spring Symposium Series}, url="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ai-lab?kuipers:dr05", year={2005} }