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Co-Robots: Humans and Robots Operating as Partners

The Confluence of Engineering-Based Robotics and Human-Centered Application Domains

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A new era of robotics research is being driven by pressing societal problems and creating a transformation in the way that we envision human-robot interactions. In this chapter, we discuss three application domains that best capture both the promise and the challenges that this transformation has generated: the effort to build robots that support cognitive and social growth, robots that work in the home doing domestic tasks for users that have no training in robotics, and collaborative robots that work side-by-side to solve manufacturing and assembly tasks with human workers.

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Acknowledgments

Work is supported by the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, and the Keck Foundation.

Figure 1 photos of Bandit and Baxter are courtesy of the University of Southern California and Rethink Robotics, respectively. Photos of the Autom, Roomba, PR2, and Kiva robots are courtesy of Theron Trowbridge (2011), Eirik Newth (2006), Ingo Lütkebohle (2010), and JBLM PAO (2015), respectively, via Flickr (CC BY 2.0). Thanks to Emily Lennon for the illustration used in Fig. 2.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Yale University, 51 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT, 06410-8285, USA

    Brian Scassellati & Katherine M. Tsui

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    William Sims Bainbridge

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Scassellati, B., Tsui, K.M. (2016). Co-Robots: Humans and Robots Operating as Partners. In: Bainbridge, W., Roco, M. (eds) Handbook of Science and Technology Convergence. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07052-0_27

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