Human-Robot Interaction in Social Robotics

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Shared Autonomy and Teleoperation

6.1    Introduction

How will social robots be deployed in our daily lives? It would be great if fully autonomous robots work in the real world as designed; however, this would need a lot of technologies that are not available today. Robots have difficulty in recognizing people’s voices in noisy environments. Robots do not know about people and environments, and thus there is a big knowledge gap, perhaps to be filled by some learning technique in the future. Do we need to wait for such techniques to become available?

This situation would be somewhat similar across many robotics fields, such as space exploration, search and rescue, medicine, and the military domain. The common solution is not to wait for ...