Robotics Seminar
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All robots must be developed with humans in mind. Robots navigating remote environments often need assistance from human operators or supervisors, either in the form of teleoperation or interventions when the robot's autonomy is not able to handle the current situation. In co-located environments such as manufacturing floors, robots may need to explain their predicament to get assistance. As robots become more autonomous and ubiquitous, people will become bystanders to the systems, with little knowledge of the robot’s intent. This talk provides a retrospective of over two decades of research on the design of robot systems and evaluation of human-robot interaction. A wide variety of interaction modalities including multi-touch devices, virtual and augmented reality, and language, in applications ranging from assistive technology to telepresence to exoskeletons to human-in-the-loop planning for manipulation and mobility in remote environments will be presented.
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