<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>Dear colleagues,</div><div><br>It is my pleasure to announce you the release of the latest issue of the IEEE CIS Newsletter on Autonomous Mental Development, available at:<br><br><a href="http://www.cse.msu.edu/amdtc/amdnl/AMDNL-V8-N2.pdf">http://www.cse.msu.edu/amdtc/amdnl/AMDNL-V8-N2.pdf</a><br><br>This issue of the newsletter presents a stimulating dialog exploring the frontiers of developmental and evolutionary robotics, within the so-called evo-devo approach which might become more and more central in our research in the future. Yaochu Jin and Yan Meng asked a question about the interaction between phylogeny, ontogeny and epigenesis, as well as about the interaction between morphological and mental development: "Evolutionary Developmental Robotics – The Next Step to Go?". Answers by Josh Bongard, Daniel Polani, Stéphane Doncieux, Fumiya Iida, Nicolas Bredeche, Jean-Marc Montanier, Simon Carrignon, and Gunnar Tufte show that we are just at the beginning of novel far-reaching conceptual and technological projects, exploring questions such as how development can be the articulation between evolution and learning or how new materials can allow us to explore growing bodies and their impact on cognitive development.</div><div><br>Then, a new dialog is proposed by Katharina Rohlfing and Britta Wrede, about the mutual influence that research on developmental robotics and human-robot interaction should have on each other: "What novel scientific and technological questions developmental robotics bring to HRI? Are we ready for a loop?". Those of you interested in reacting are welcome to submit a response (contact <a href="mailto:pierre-yves.oudeyer@inria.fr">pierre-yves.oudeyer@inria.fr</a>) by March 1st, 2012. The length of each response must be between 300 and 500 words (including references).<br><br></div><div>Finally, Angelo Cangelosi and Jochen Triesch present a report on the very successful IEEE ICDL-Epirob conference, which was held in Frankfurt this summer.</div><div><br></div><div>Let me remind you that previous issues of the newsletter are all open-access and available at: <a href="http://www.cse.msu.edu/amdtc/amdnl/">http://www.cse.msu.edu/amdtc/amdnl/</a></div><div><br>I wish you a stimulating reading !</div><div><br>Best regards,<br><br></div><div>Pierre-Yves Oudeyer,<br>Editor of the IEEE CIS Newsletter on Autonomous Mental Development<br>INRIA, France<br><a href="http://www.pyoudeyer.com">http://www.pyoudeyer.com</a><br><a href="http://flowers.inria.fr">http://flowers.inria.fr</a><br><br></div></body></html>