As robots move into public spaces, homes and businesses, their effectiveness will be determined by their agility to manoeuver across a variety of terrains and how they manage human interactions.
Consider, for instance, the experience of two people walking toward one another on a sidewalk. At some point, both decide to step to the side to avoid one another. Sometimes this experience is seamless, sometimes not. And when it is not, it usually takes us a couple of goes to untangle who goes to which side as we both react to the other.
Now consider the same scenario with a robot. The algorithms driving its behaviour and the engineering of its manoeuvrability will determine how a robot responds.
Rotacaster is an Australian company that specialises in mobility and are demonstrating some of their key mobility innovations. You can also see their developments in action as part of the Empathy Swarm exhibition at QUT Art Museum.
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