Robonaut: the 'short list' of technology hurdles

Rehnmark, Fredrik; Bluethmann, William; Mehling, Joshua S.; Ambrose, Robert O.; Diftler, Myron; Chu, Mars W.; Necessary, R.

doi:10.1109/mc.2005.32

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“…The future might witness an increase in a number of robots, performing tasks in collaboration with humans sharing the same task space [7][8][9][10]. Such scenarios, where humans must work closely with robots in social interaction situations, are becoming increasingly relevant in the world of today [11][12][13][14][15]. This vision gives rise to a need for the investigation of human perception in regards to its robot partners, interacting collaboratively on a shared task.…”

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The Effect of Emotions and Social Behavior on Performance in a Collaborative Serious Game Between Humans and Autonomous Robots

Jerčić

Wei

Hagelbäck

et al. 2017

Int J of Soc Robotics

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The aim of this paper is to investigate performance in a collaborative human-robot interaction on a shared serious game task. Furthermore, the effect of elicited emotions and perceived social behavior categories on players' performance will be investigated. The participants collaboratively played a turn-taking version of the Tower of Hanoi serious game, together with the human and robot collaborators. The elicited emotions were analyzed in regards to the arousal and valence variables, computed from the Geneva Emotion Wheel questionnaire. Moreover, the perceived social behavior categories were obtained from analyzing and grouping replies to the Interactive Experiences and Trust and Respect questionnaires. It was found that the results did not show a statistically significant difference in participants' performance between the human or robot collaborators. Moreover, all of the collaborators elicited similar emotions, where the human collaborator was perceived as more credible and socially present than the robot one. It is suggested that using robot collaborators might be as efficient as using human ones, in the context of serious game collaborative tasks.

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The Effect of Emotions and Social Behavior on Performance in a Collaborative Serious Game Between Humans and Autonomous Robots

Jerčić

Wei

Hagelbäck

et al. 2017

Int J of Soc Robotics

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“…1 In applications for which physical manipulation of the environment is not required by a robot, there is a temptation to use software agents or video displays in place of a physically present robot, in order to reduce cost and maintenance. Recent human-computer interaction studies have focused on various non-physical, social interactions with artificial agents and robots, and the design factors which influence the quality of these social interactions [2,3,5,17]. These interactions include those in which a system must motivate a human user, or inspire trust from them [2][3][4][5].…”

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The Benefits of Interactions with Physically Present Robots over Video-Displayed Agents

Bainbridge

Hart

Kim

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This paper explores how a robot's physical presence affects human judgments of the robot as a social partner. For this experiment, participants collaborated on simple book-moving tasks with a humanoid robot that was either physically present or displayed via a live video feed. Multiple tasks individually examined the following aspects of social interaction: greetings, cooperation, trust, and personal space. Participants readily greeted and cooperated with the robot whether present physically or in live video display. However, participants were more likely both to fulfill an unusual request and to afford greater personal space to the robot when it was physically present, than when it was shown on live video. The same was true when the live video displayed robot's gestures were augmented with disambiguating 3-D information. Questionnaire data support these behavioral findings and also show that participants had an overall more positive interaction with the physically present robot.

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“…This list could be continued much further, and each of its entries denotes a highly non-trivial type of interaction pattern which is in most cases rather routine for human hands, but with very few exceptions well beyond the state of the art in current robotics [Robonaut05].…”

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Trying to Grasp a Sketch of a Brain for Grasping

Ritter

Haschke

Steil

2009

Creating Brain-Like Intelligence

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Brain-like behavior is intimately connected with the ability to actively manage a rich set of interactions with the environment. Originating with very simple movements in homogeneous domains, the gradual evolution of movement sophistication endowed animals with an increasing ability to control their environment, ultimately advancing from the physical into the mental object domain with the advent of language-based communication and thinking. Appearing at the high complexity end of the physical movement evolution ladder, the ability of dextrous manipulation seems in the role of a "transition technology", leading from movement control into the mental capabilities of language use and thinking. We therefore argue that manual actions and their replication in robots are positioned as a "Rosetta stone" for understanding cognition. Using the example of grasping, we contrast the "clockwork building style" of traditional engineering with more holistic, biologically inspired solutions for grasp synthesis and discuss the potential of the research field of "Manual Intelligence" and its speculative connections with language for making progress towards robots with more brain-like behavior.

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Robonaut: the 'short list' of technology hurdles

Cited by 29 publications

References 10 publications

The Effect of Emotions and Social Behavior on Performance in a Collaborative Serious Game Between Humans and Autonomous Robots

The Effect of Emotions and Social Behavior on Performance in a Collaborative Serious Game Between Humans and Autonomous Robots

The Benefits of Interactions with Physically Present Robots over Video-Displayed Agents

Trying to Grasp a Sketch of a Brain for Grasping

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