Post by: Sylvia Herbert, Andrea Bajcsy, David Fridovich-Keil, Shreyas Kousik in SIGBED Blog
As of 2023, the progress in deploying robots in the real world is hard to miss: autonomous vehicles actively drive passengers without safety drivers in San Francisco and Phoenix, personal drones for videography can autonomously track human movement despite hard-to-sense obstacles like tree branches, and lightweight robotic manipulators have become more accessible to people with motor impairments. Nevertheless, these robots…