8 years ago

4 Things Robots Need to Learn Before Working With Humans

The robots are coming. If you've ever tripped over a robot vacuum, you've actually waded into the fascinating frontier that is human-robot interaction. If humans are at all going to get along with increasingly sophisticated robots, we need to figure out how we're going to interact with them, and in turn they'll need to adapt to us. Subtle communications, like a robot pretending to struggle with a heavy object it's handing to you so you're not surprised by the weight, will be pivotal for our two species to work together without driving each other crazy. Luckily, ace roboticists like UC Berkeley's Anca Dragan are diving deep into the fascinating problems of human-robot interaction before they become problems.

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