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The new robotics—towards human‐centered machines

Year: 2007

Type: article

Abstract: Research in robotics has moved away from its primary focus on industrial applications. The New Robotics is a vision that has been developed in past years by our own university and many other national and international research institutions and addresses how increasingly more human-like robots can live among us and take over tasks where our current society has shortcomings. Elder care, physical therapy, child education, search and rescue, and general assistance in daily life situations are some of the examples that will benefit from the New Robotics in the near future. With these goals in mind, research for the New Robotics has to embrace a broad interdisciplinary approach, ranging from traditional mathematical issues of robotics to novel issues in psychology, neuroscience, and ethics. This paper outlines some of the important research problems that will need to be resolved to make the New Robotics a reality.

Source: HFSP journal

DOI: 10.2976/1.2748612

Author: Stefan Schaal

Institutions: University of Southern California, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International

Language: English

Topic: Social Robot Interaction and HRI

Subfield: Social Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology, Air Force Office of Scientific Research

Awards: ITR: Collaborative Research: Using Humanoids to Understand Humans, Collaborative Research Resources: An Experimental Platform for Humanoid Robotics Research, ITR: The Virtual Trainer, ITR/CISE: Towards Organic Computing in Computer Vision and Robotics, ITR: Collaborative Research: Using Humanoids to Understand Humans