03 ASIMOV'S SECOND LAW OF ROBOTICS EXPLAINED #50LAM_ARTIFICIAL_INTELLIGENCE

https://youtu.be/VyIWymIkDC4

#AsimovsLaws #SecondLawOfRobotics #AIethics #RobotObedience #IsaacAsimov #HumanRobotInteraction #AIphilosophy #RoboticsFuture #ScienceFiction #TechEthics

MoVEInt: Mixture of Variational Experts for Learning Human-Robot Interactions from Demonstrations

Authors: Vignesh Prasad, Alap Kshirsagar, Dorothea Koert, Ruth Stock-Homburg, Jan Peters, Georgia Chalvatzaki

pre-print -> https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.07636

website -> https://sites.google.com/view/moveint/home

#robotics #deep_learning #vae #mdn #hri #humanrobotinteraction

It's seems almost ridiculous to juxtapose our relatively benign #AI discussions (e.g. impact on work, future of the education, etc.) with discussions about whether or not an AI agent can be relied upon to correctly identify and execute enemy #combatants in a #warzone. As with a lot of AI evaluations these days, the findings do not appear to be good.... 😬

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-69771-z #ArtificialIntelligence #DecisionMaking #robots #HumanRobotInteraction

🚀 Excited to share our latest work! 🚀
"AdaptiX - A Transitional XR Framework for Development and Evaluation of Shared Control Applications in Assistive Robotics" is now published!

👉 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3660243

I am excited to present our work at the EICS 2024 conference in #Cagliari, Italy on June 28th.

@ACM @sigchi

#AssistiveTech #Robotics #Human #Robot #HRI #XR #MR #AR #VR #AdaptiX #Research #HumanRobotInteraction #Technology #Accessibility #SharedControl

Stanford’s HumanPlus Robot Learns Skills by Watching Humans: A New Era in Robotics.

See here - https://techchilli.com/news/stanfords-humanplus-robot-learns-skills-by-watching-humans/

#Stanford #HumanPlus #Robotics #AI #Innovation #TechRevolution #HumanoidRobot #FutureTech #RobotLearning #AIResearch #TechInnovation #HumanRobotInteraction #RoboticSkills

Meet Emo, the robot with a knack for anticipating human smiles and grinning back at just the right moment. Developed by a team at Columbia University, Emo is equipped with generative AI technology that analyzes facial expressions and predicts smiles before they happen.

#Robotics #AI #HumanRobotInteraction #Emo #TechInnovation #FutureTech #GenerativeAI #FacialExpressions #TechNews

The Human Side of AI and Automation.
https://wp.me/p84YjG-3KK #AIAdvancements #ai #zsoltzsemba #RoboticsInnovation #HumanRobotInteraction #OpenAI #BMWAutomation #manufacturing #IntelligentRobotics #FutureOfAutomation #ManufacturingAI #AISurprises

http://zsoltzsemba.com/2024/03/17/figure-one/

Although robots cannot replace human caregivers, they can provide support so that caregivers have more time to provide the personal, human touch with a project like EDAN, a CYBATHLON Assistance Robot Race team from the German Aerospace Center (DLR). https://shorturl.at/HOWXY

#CYBATHLON #robotics #roboticsystems #humanmachineinteraction #humanrobotinteraction #assistivetechnology #technologiecalinnovation #ForAWorldWithoutBarriers

Ana Müller, Michael Schiffmann, Anke Neumeister and Anja Richert’s study explores the integration of social robots in museums, emphasizing real-world conditions. Visitors seek convenient information retrieval, posing challenges in developing robots with conversational skills and comprehensive knowledge. As social robots become integral in public spaces, understanding the balance between accuracy and control is pivotal for meaningful interactions. #SocialRobots #MuseumTech #HumanRobotInteraction

Digitale technologie is definitief méér dan een middel
In gesprekken over digitalisering stellen gesprekspartners nog steeds vaak dat technologie maar een middel is. Voor mij is digitale technologie echter altijd meer geweest dan een middel. In het tijdperk van ‘assistive computing’ raak ik daar steeds meer van overtuigd.
https://www.te-learning.nl/blog/digitale-technologie-is-definitief-meer-dan-een-middel/
#artificialintelligence #digitaleassistent #enabler #leertechnologie #middel #humanrobotinteraction #onderwijs #edutoot

Really happy to share our survey on social robot navigation that was recently accepted for publication in the ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction Journal!

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3583741

#robotics #humanrobotinteraction #ai #artificialintelligence

📢 Call for Participation!

18th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction #HRI2023 🤖
https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2023/

🇸🇪March 13-16, Stockholm, Sweden & Online 🌐

Registration is open, early bird deadline🐦: 31 Jan
Fee waiver deadline: 9 Feb
ACM SIGAI scholarship
#humanrobotinteraction #HRI #conference #robotics #robot

Hello Mastodon-verse! #introduction

As a fresh #twittermigrant here's me introducing myself. I'm a PhD researcher at ASCoR #UvA. My research focuses on #HumanRobotInteraction 🤖 My educational background is in #psychology & #humanmachinecommunication. My research interests lie in applying psychological principles to building technological systems.

Outside of my research, I run my #mentalhealth #startup. I also enjoy reading 📚, photography 📷, and travelling 🧳

Excited to start connecting!

Another summary from the #ColiberationLab.

“I, Misfit: Empty Fortresses, Social Robots, and Peculiar Relations in Autism Research.”

In this paper, I think about autistic people and robots. Ideas about autism as robotic have made researchers do very strange things. Many autism researchers write about how autistic people are like robots, and many robotics researchers write about how robots are like autistic people! There are even studies about how to use robots to help autistic people be more “human”. I think this is very silly. The paper that I wrote is very serious. But the truth is that I laughed a lot while writing it. I also cried a little. Sometimes things that are silly are also deeply sad.

There are many studies about how to use robots to take care of other people. Care Robots are designed for elder care, dementia care, and other kinds of care that might happen in a clinic, hospital, or nursing home. This is often called “Robot Assisted Therapy”. Researchers like Andrew Bischof and Arne Maibaum have studied robotics. They write about how most Care Robot research begins by asking “How can we use a robot to solve a problem here?” This is a silly way to begin research, because you are assuming that a robot would be a good solution to the problem at all.

“Robotic Care Assistants” or Care Robots are usually made to do things that other people think are boring, like doing the same thing over and over. Ruha Benjamin writes about how we think of robots as slaves, and how this means we sometimes build technologies with racist ideas. When we build things with racist ideas, we build a racist world, even if we do not know it. I worry about how often Care Robots are built to be like servants. I worry about this because if we want robots to be servants, that means we want servants. If we want servants, we want something that hurts other people. I think some people feel that it’s okay because robots do not have feelings. I feel that it’s not okay, no matter what, because wanting servants makes us treat other people badly, even if we think we are only acting badly toward robots.

I look at studies where people try to use robots to make autistic people behave a certain way. I think the way that researchers talk about autistic people tells us about how they do not respect autistic people very much. In these studies, both the autistic people and the robots sometimes do something surprising. When this happens, it can show researchers that what they think about autistic people is wrong.

Around 60 to 70 years ago, there was a man who studied autism named Bruno Bettelheim. Bettelheim ran a school for “Emotionally Disturbed” children, where families brought their autistic children when they felt they could not take care of them. Bettelheim sometimes convinced families to send their children to his school. He told families their children were not well, emotionally or mentally, and that he could help them. Bettelheim wrote about how autistic children were empty inside. He wrote that they became empty inside because there was something wrong with how the children behave around their families.

Most researchers now do not think that Bettelheim was right about autism. Even though Bettelheim was wrong, the things that he wrote were so popular that many people still believe them. Even researchers that know Bettelheim was wrong still write about autistic people being empty or “off” in some ways. When someone says that an autistic person is “off” they mean that they don’t feel like the autistic person is like other people, and that this is bad. Autistic people are often called “misfits”. Researchers write about how autistic people move funny, talk differently, and don’t understand other people. Often, they write about autistic people being like a robot, or a machine.

I think that it is silly that researchers talk about autistic people being like robots, and then want to use robots to make autistic people act more “normal”. Researchers often try to use a robot to teach an autistic person how to act when around other people. Researchers say that if they can make an autistic person act “normal”, then other people will treat them better. Why isn’t anybody teaching “normal” people how to be nice?

Researchers think they need to fix the autistic person because they do not think the autistic person is different, they think the autistic person is broken. Researchers write that if they can fix or change the autistic person, it will be good for other people. Researchers have decided two things. 1. That robots can teach autistic people to be like other people. And 2. That this is good because it will make things easier for everyone else.

Sometimes, the autistic people in these robot studies show the researchers that they are upset, that they don’t like the robot, or they don’t like the activity. I think it’s important for researchers to notice when the autistic people in their studies are “misbehaving” because it can show the researchers that what they are studying is wrong.

It’s so funny that researchers have written that they can use the robots to notice when the autistic person is upset. The researchers know that they are bad at understanding autistic people. But then they write about how autistic people struggle to understand others! If we are willing to teach robots how to understand autistic people, why won’t we teach each other how to understand autistic people? Why do we work so hard to change only the autistic person?

In one study, an autistic person was not good at the task the researchers wanted him to do. He was not copying what the robot did the way the researchers wanted him to. Even though he was doing the task “wrong”, at the end of every appointment, he would kiss the robot on the head. I think about this a lot. There are a lot of stories about autistic people being loving toward robots. Even though researchers are wrong about autistic people being robotic, autistic people often feel friendship with robots because we are treated badly by the same people. Autistic people and robots are both treated like “Misfits.” Researchers should be more like autistic people, be more open to being friends with people who are different, and stop trying to change them.

To read more:

https://www.pdcnet.org/techne/content/techne_2021_0999_10_19_147

Or

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/355516306_I_Misfit_in_advance_Empty_Fortresses_Social_Robots_and_Peculiar_Relations_in_Autism_Research

Hashtag soup:

#HRI #HumanRobotInteraction #HumanRobotRelations #RobotAssistedTherapy #SociallyAssistiveRobots #Autism #AutismTherapy #ActuallyAutistic #Research #ResearchSummary #SciComm #ScholarComm #STS #CDS #CriticalDisabilityStudies #CriticalAutismStudies

Edit: Deleted and reposted because I accidentally kept it unlisted. Sorry about the beleted replies.

#introduction I do research in the areas of #ConversationalAI #NLProc and #HumanRobotInteraction #HRI .
PhD from Edinburgh (Cognitive Science), postdocs at Manchester (AI), Stanford (CSLI), and Edinburgh (Informatics), and now Prof at Heriot-Watt / Edinburgh Centre for Robotics. Co-founder of Alana AI. Chair of SIGDIAL 2022.

#CollaborativeHumanAISystems 3: #ITL, #InteractiveTaskLearning, #HumanRobotInteraction - how can complex #agents learn from humans? #language is large part of that puzzle.

Focus on #ELP, #EmbodiedLanguageProcessing - what does it mean to 'understand' language for communication, collaboration, & teaching.

Not #InformationRetrieval #IR which #NLP research studies.

#IEEE #ROMAN 2021: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.06755
#ACS 2020: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01962
#ACS 2014: https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.02509

For some more specific background of my work, I just published my first article on domain-specific and domain-general network engagement during human-robot interaction together with Ruud Hortensius! ✨

You can check it out in the European Journal of Neuroscience: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ejn.15823

#Neuroscience #socialneuroscience #functionalconnectivity #fMRI #HRI #humanrobotinteraction

Inspired by @debruine and @dsquintana, this is my #introduction.

I'm part of the #TwitterMigration, woohoo! I'm an assistant professor at Utrecht University and plan to post about #humanrobotinteraction, #socialneuroscience, #socialcognition, #collaboration with students, #future of research(ers) and life in #academia in general, and probably about my new interest/hobby/job in construction (bought a house that requires a major revision).