Humans and Robots Together Today and in the Future
Lionel Robert is a professor of information and robotics at the University of Michigan. He’s also director of their autonomous vehicle research collaboration, MAVRIC.
He has researched different dimensions of technology and humans. In particular, the emotional relationships between humans, robotics and technology. He focuses on not only what’s happening today but especially how this will change over future years.
MAVRIC is a cross-campus multidisciplinary collaboration to study Autonomous Vehicles at the University of Michigan. (See the link in the sidebar.)
Shorts
Human and Robots New Relationship (audio podcast)
Transcript for the Podcast
The intersection of humans and robots
Intimacy between humans and technology
Emotional dependence on a robot
People who cannot integrate into society
Robots offering new lives to older people and disabled people
Making a chatbot of a loved one you lost
Once technology is out there, it’s hard to establish effective policy.
Does regulation slow progress?
Balancing the good and the bad
Automation and shaping urban spaces
Security robots: pros and cons
Determine what trade-offs we as a society accept
We need to have open public discussions and groups that lobby for citizens
Robots integrated into families over the next 10 years
Developing nations will slide back, not forward as jobs are done by robots
The human touch will cost more. What do you want to keep uniquely human?
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Links to explore
Lionel’s page on University of Michigan site
Their mission: “The Robotics Department at the University of Michigan is creating the next generation of robotics and roboticists as force-multipliers for the benefit of society. ”
Lionel’s personal website
At the Precision Health Research Symposium
You can learn about his extensive career here
Do I Believe My Robot is Really Sorry? Mind Perception’s Impact on Trust Repair in Robots
An absolutely fascinating perspective on the relations between humans and robots.
This post on Medium summarizes the paper “The Theory of Mind and Human-Robot Trust Repair,” which was co-authored by Connor Esterwood, and Lionel P. Robert Jr.
Read about MAVRIC on the dedicated website here.
MAVRIC is the Michigan Autonomous Vehicle Research Intergroup Collaboration.
MAVRIC is a cross-campus multidisciplinary collaboration to study Autonomous Vehicles at the University of Michigan. Learn more about their research and sponsors at the link above.
