Cognitive Robots

• Industrial robots have been put in cages. This is to protect people from them.
• Imagine a two ton robotic arm moving around with an acetylene torch. You want to avoid that.
• Of course, this cage limits the effectiveness of robots.
• Cognitive robotics is trying to support collaboration between people and robots.
• Firstly, the robot must now be more careful of the user. To do this, it helps if the robot can predict what the user is going to do.
• Secondly, the robot wants to collaborate with the user.
• They can communicate to share plans.
• They also can learn, so that the plan develops.
• There is a lot of scope here to do clever AI things.