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The 2023 ACM/IEEE Human-Robot Interaction Conference (HRI) is happening this week in Stockholm, with the theme of “HRI for all.” It’s a great theme, selling range and inclusion, however it’s additionally a great reminder that every one robots have (or ought to have) some thought put into how they work together with people. HRI isn’t only for social robots—even essentially the most industrial of commercial robots, the lights-out manufacturing types of issues which will by no means see a human whereas working until one thing is (or is about to be) very very improper, nonetheless must be arrange and programmed by a human, and people people are happiest when engineers keep in mind that they exist.
Anyway, there might be a bunch of fascinating analysis introduced at HRI (the proceedings are already on-line right here), however to kick issues off we’re having a look on the annual HRI Student Design Competition, which is all the time inventive and enjoyable.