These Robots Follow You to Learn Where to Go | WIRED
In farm fields, Burro offers what looks like an autonomous driving pallet on the body of a four-wheel ATV that can move freely between the rows of California fruit orchards.
To train a Burro robot, you simply press a Follow button and start walking; at the end of the path, you press the button again. Using up to 20 cameras, computer vision, and GPS, Burro follows you and memorizes the route.
Teaching robots to socialize – TechCrunch
Politeness doesn't really amount to much when you're programmed to get from point A to point B. But if robots are going to play an increased role in human society, questions arise around how precisely they'll get along with the rest of us.
The team calls the paper, "the first very serious attempt for understanding what it means for humans and machines to interact socially.
Tagalong robots follow you to learn where you go | Ars Technica
Follower robots have been tapped for senseless pursuits like carrying a single bottle of water, but robots can also carry tools in a warehouse or just-picked fruit from an orchard to a packing station.
Follower robots have been under development since the late 1990s , beginning on the ground and extending underwater and into the sky.
Giving robots social skills | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT researchers have now incorporated certain social interactions into a framework for robotics, enabling machines to understand what it means to help or hinder one another, and to learn to perform these social behaviors on their own.
Australia to Acquire Bulletproof Jaeger-C Swarming Attack Robots
The Australian military has contracted technology firm GaardTech to supply Jaeger-C unmanned combat vehicles featuring both anti-tank and anti-personnel capabilities.
Designed for enemy ambush, the wheeled robot can silently observe targets with its autonomous image analysis function. When it identifies a potential target, the platform switches into either Goliath or Chariot mode, depending on whether the target is personnel or a vehicle.
The Future Of Delivery Robots
These particular ones belong to Starship, a company that deployed its first autonomous delivery bots just three years ago and now operates a fleet of over a thousand, in several locations in the UK, USA, and very soon in mainland Europe too.
Of these journeys, the vast majority are completed fully autonomously; however, human operators are always ready to step in when needed. Westgarth told me, "Safety is always our number one priority, so if a robot encounters something unusual, it will stop and send an alert to our remote operators.
First social skills framework for robots developed in MIT - NotebookCheck.net News
A level 0 machine performs its tasks without recognizing a common goal. The next, level 1 robots, can cooperate on common goals but assume that only they can interact in such a manner.
We have opened a new mathematical framework for how you model social interaction between two agents. If you are a robot, and you want to go to location X, and I am another robot and I see that you are trying to go to location X, I can cooperate by helping you get to location X faster.
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