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ADAPTIVE HUMAN–ROBOT INTERACTION

Ask this robot for a helping hand

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To be useful in a variety of daily tasks, robots must be able to interact physically with humans and infer how to be most helpful. A new theory for interactive robot control allows a robot to learn when to assist or challenge a human during reaching movements.

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Fig. 1: Game theory controllers allow robots to physically interact with humans in a variety of ways.

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  1. Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Luke Drnach & Lena H. Ting

  2. School of Electrical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Luke Drnach

  3. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Lena H. Ting

  4. Division of Physical Therapy, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Lena H. Ting

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Drnach, L., Ting, L.H. Ask this robot for a helping hand. Nat Mach Intell 1, 8–9 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-018-0013-0

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