What to Expect When You Are Expecting Robots - The Future of Human-Robot Collaboration

This talk examines how robots can become effective human teammates by learning human behavior, coordinating tasks, communicating, and operating safely in shared environments. It also considers the social norms, infrastructure, and public-private coordination needed to integrate autonomous robots into society.

Syllabus

Introduction
Examples of HumanRobot Collaboration
How many robots are in peoples homes
Sidewalk delivery robots
Tom Brady
Three sequential systems
What is a bad decision
Key challenges
Learning latent factors
Example constrained variational inference
Example unsupervised approach
Learning the human model
Learning task specifications
Learning more complex tasks
Learning perturbations
Execution
Handover
Conclusion