A robot may be trained based on cooperation between an operator and a trainer. During training, the operator may control the robot using a plurality of control instructions. The trainer may observe movements of the robot and generate a plurality of control commands, such as gestures, sound and/or light wave modulation. Control instructions may be combined with the trainer commands via a learning process in order to develop an association between the two. During operation, the learning process may generate one or more control instructions based on one or more gesture by the trainer. One or both the trainer or the operator may comprise a human, and/or computerized entity.