This field of research examines how embodied and situated agents, such as robots, evolve language and thus communicate with each other. This book is a comprehensive survey of the research in this emerging field.The contributions explain the theoretical and methodological foundations of the field, and then illustrate the scientific and technological potentials and promising research directions. The book also provides descriptions of research experiments and related open software and hardware tools, allowing the reader to gain a practical knowledge of the topic.The book will be of interest to scientists and undergraduate and graduate students in the areas of cognition, artificial life, artificial intelligence and linguistics.

This field of research examines how embodied and situated agents, such as robots, evolve language and thus communicate with each other.

A Synthetic Approach to the Study of the Evolution of Communication and Language.- Theoretical Aspects of Communication and Language.- Artificial Organisms with Human Language.- Evolution of Language as One of the Major Evolutionary Transitions.- Strategic Aspects of Communication.- Theoretical Tools in Modeling Communication and Language Dynamics.- Emergence of Scale-Free Syntax Networks.- Evolution of Communication.- Evolving Communication in Embodied Agents: Theory, Methods, and Evaluation.- Evolutionary Conditions for the Emergence of Communication.- Producer Biases and Kin Selection in the Evolution of Communication.- Evolution of Signaling in a Multi-Robot System: Categorization and Communication.- Evolution of Implicit and Explicit Communication in Mobile Robots.- Evolving Communication in Embodied Agents: Assessment and Open Challenges.- Evolution of Language.- Modeling The Formation of Language in Embodied Agents: Methods and Open Challenges.- Modeling the Formation of Language: Embodied Experiments.- Mathematical Modeling of Language Games.- Modeling the Formation of Language in Embodied Agents: Conclusions and Future Research.- Conclusion.- Embodied and Communicating Agents: Towards the Establishment of a Solid Theoretical and Methodological Framework.- Appendix: Software and Hardware Tools.- Evorobot*.- E-puck.- Babel.