ICUBE

May 4, 2020

Collaborative robots – or co-bots – currently rely on physically mechanical, hierarchical instructions delivered explicitly by humans, without consideration to other important characteristics – pose, expression and language. Co-bots therefore lack the ability to sense humans and their behaviour appropriately.  I-CUBE has been addressing this challenge and initiated a study to capture the language and gestures used by humans whilst collaborating with robots conducting a simple laundry sorting task.  The …