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| last = Turing | first = A.M. | date = 1950 | url = http://www.csee.umbc.edu/courses/471/papers/turing.pdf | title = Computing machinery and intelligence | journal = Mind | publisher = LIX | issue = 236 | pages = 433–460 | doi = 10.1093/mind/LIX.236.433 }}</ref>

but it is only since the end of the 20th century that they began to be investigated systematically.<ref name="Weng01">{{cite journal

| last1 = Weng | first1 = J. | last2 = McClelland | last3 = Pentland | first3 = A. | last4 = Sporns | first4 = O. | last5 = Stockman | first5 = I. | last6 = Sur | first6 = M. | first7 = E. | last7 = Thelen | date = 2001 | url = http://www.cse.msu.edu/dl/SciencePaper.pdf | title = Autonomous mental development by robots and animals | journal = Science | volume = 291 | issue = 5504 | pages = 599–600 | doi=10.1126/science.291.5504.599| pmid = 11229402 | s2cid = 54131797 }}</ref><ref name="Lungarella03">{{cite journal

| last1 = Lungarella | first1 = M. | last2 = Metta | first2 = G. | last3 = Pfeifer | first3 = R. | first4 = G. | last4 = Sandini | date = 2003 | title = Developmental robotics: a survey | citeseerx = 10.1.1.83.7615 | journal = Connection Science | volume = 15 | issue = 4 | pages = 151–190 | doi=10.1080/09540090310001655110| s2cid = 1452734 }}</ref><ref name="Asada09">{{cite journal

| last1 = Asada | first1 = M. | last2 = Hosoda | first2 = K. | last3 = Kuniyoshi | first3 = Y. | last4 = Ishiguro | first4 = H. | last5 = Inui | first5 = T. | last6 = Yoshikawa | first6 = Y. | last7 = Ogino | first7 = M. | first8 = C. | last8 = Yoshida | date = 2009 | title = Cognitive developmental robotics: a survey | journal = IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development | volume = 1 | issue = 1 | pages = 12–34 | doi=10.1109/tamd.2009.2021702| s2cid = 10168773 }}</ref><ref name="Oudeyer10">{{cite journal

| authorlink1 = Pierre-Yves Oudeyer | last1 = Oudeyer | first1 = P-Y. | date = 2010 | url = http://www.pyoudeyer.com/IEEETAMDOudeyer10.pdf | title = On the impact of robotics in behavioral and cognitive sciences: from insect navigation to human cognitive development | journal = IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development | volume = 2 | issue = 1 | pages = 2–16 | doi=10.1109/tamd.2009.2039057| s2cid = 6362217 }}</ref>

Because the concept of adaptive intelligent machines is central to developmental robotics, it has relationships with fields such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, [[cognitive robotics]] or [[computational neuroscience]]. Yet, while it may reuse some of the techniques elaborated in these fields, it differs from them from many perspectives. It differs from classical artificial intelligence because it does not assume the capability of advanced symbolic reasoning and focuses on embodied and situated sensorimotor and social skills rather than on abstract symbolic problems. It differs from traditional machine learning because it targets task-independent self-determined learning rather than task-specific inference over "spoon-fed human-edited sensory data" (Weng et al., 2001). It differs from cognitive robotics because it focuses on the processes that allow the formation of cognitive capabilities rather than these capabilities themselves. It differs from computational neuroscience because it focuses on functional modeling of integrated architectures of development and learning. More generally, developmental robotics is uniquely characterized by the following three features:

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Similarly, in biology, developmental mechanisms (operating at the ontogenetic time scale) interact closely with evolutionary mechanisms (operating at the phylogenetic time scale) as shown in the flourishing "[[evo-devo]]" scientific literature.<ref name="Muller07">{{cite journal

| last1 = Müller | first1 = G. B. | date = 2007 | title = Evo-devo: extending the evolutionary synthesis | journal = Nature Reviews Genetics | volume = 8 | issue = 12 | pages = 943–949 | doi=10.1038/nrg2219 | pmid=17984972| s2cid = 19264907 }}</ref>

However, the interaction of those mechanisms in artificial organisms, developmental robots, in particular, is still vastly understudied. The interaction of evolutionary mechanisms, unfolding morphologies and developing sensorimotor and social skills will thus be a highly stimulating topic for the future of developmental robotics.