The researchers monitored how group members’ communication differed depending on which type of robot was on each team. They found that people working with robots that showed vulnerability spent more time talking with their fellow humans than did those in the control groups. Subjects with vulnerable robots also divided their conversation more equally between each human member of the team.
Farshid Amirabdollahian, a professor of human-robot interaction at the University of Hertfordshire in England, who was not involved with this study, says the research provides more evidence that “social behavior engineering for robots can affect their utility and influences on others.” In other words, by changing the actions of intelligent machines, developers can alter the behavior of the people who interact with those machines.
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Bring in the Robot Cleaners: Travel Industry Innovations for the Pandemic - The New York Times
While most hotels that remain open after the outbreak of Covid-19 are stepping up cleaning routines, the Westin Houston Medical Center in Houston, Texas, is going beyond Lysol and bleach. In addition to standard cleaning protocols, it says it is the first to deploy two newly acquired robots to sanitize rooms and common areas.
Other hygienic practices that the new hotel — which handles, among other guests, patients seeking medical treatment at the Texas Medical Center — include removing nonessential items like decorative pillows and magazines, and disinfecting the TV remote control and placing it in a sealed plastic bag.
These friendly robots could protect doctors from coronavirus
It’s counterintuitive, in a way. If robots look too similar to humans, we feel uneasy. This is due to a phenomenon called the “ Uncanny Valley ,” first coined by roboticist Masahiro Mori in 1970. Basically, we find robots more approachable the more human-like they appear, but only up to a point. Then we start to have negative responses.
Cui and his team accomplished this in a few key ways. First, they made Cloud Ginger appear emotional and relatable. They used “simple, cute, and cartoon design elements” like oversized eyes and a rounded smile to mask its cold, technical interior, which houses all the visual and sensory tech that a robot needs to operate. (Though those completely black eyes do creep me out a bit.
Covid-19 health-care crisis could drive new developments in robotics, editorial says - The
The covid-19 pandemic is pushing human bodies — and human ingenuity — to their limits. As patients flood emergency departments and health-care workers struggle to respond, an international group of robotic experts is making a case for some electronic intervention.
In an editorial in the journal Science Robotics, they argue that covid-19 could drive new developments in robotics — and that the devices could help with more effective diagnosis, screening and patient care.
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The Covid-19 Pandemic Is a Crisis That Robots Were Built For | WIRED
Perhaps "people start to reflect that for situations such as this, how robots can be used not only to help with social distancing, but also for increasing social interaction," said Guang-Zhong Yang, founding editor of the journal, during a press conference.
Additionally, robots could enable a form of telemedicine that would keep humans out of areas of contagion. "Covid-19 could be a catalyst for developing robotic systems that can be rapidly deployed with remote access by experts and essential service providers without the need of traveling to front lines," they wrote.
Robots enlisted to fight the coronavirus in China, the US, and Europe - Business Insider
Take a look at some of the clever ways robots are used around the world to slow the spread of the coronavirus and help healthcare workers.
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How robots can help combat COVID-19 -- ScienceDaily
Can robots be effective tools in combating the COVID-19 pandemic? A group of leaders in the field of robotics, including Henrik Christensen, director of UC San Diego's Contextual Robotics Institute, say yes, and outline a number of examples in an editorial in the March 25 issue of Science Robotics .
"Already, we have seen robots being deployed for disinfection, delivering medications and food, measuring vital signs, and assisting border controls," the researchers write.
Coronavirus: Robot doctor could help with future outbreak - BBC News
Artificial intelligence and robotics experts in Edinburgh are working to create what they hope will be the first healthcare robots to hold a conversation with more than one person at a time.
It is a project designed to help older people, but it could one day be used to help handle virus outbreaks like the coronavirus pandemic.
"It's not something we had actually considered while designing the project," says Heriot-Watt's professor of computer science Oliver Lemon.
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New research shows the presence and actions of robots affect the way humans relate to other humans. https://t.co/njnaTp1r8j sciam (from New York City) Fri Mar 27 16:00:12 +0000 2020
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