The social life of robots

Abstract

Researchers are trying to build robots capable of working together with minimal human supervision. But will they ever learn to get along?

References

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Index Terms

• Computer systems organization

  • Embedded and cyber-physical systems

    • Robotics

• Computing methodologies

  • Artificial intelligence

    • Computer vision

      • Computer vision tasks

        • Scene understanding

    • Control methods

      • Robotic planning

    • Planning and scheduling

      • Robotic planning

• Information systems

  • Information systems applications

    • Decision support systems

      • Expert systems