What makes a machine more than just a piece of hardware? Do we form relationships with our technology? How should we be teaching robots to act? And what are they teaching us?
These are just some of the questions that Professor聽Kerstin Dautenhahn is exploring as the Canada 150 Research Chair in Intelligent Robotics. Dautenhahn joined the University of 蓝莓视频鈥檚 Faculty of Engineering in 2018 to establish the new聽Social and Intelligent Robotics Research Laboratory.
But advancing state of the art of technology for social and intelligent robots is only part of her research agenda.
鈥淛ust because you can build something, doesn鈥檛 mean you should,鈥 says Dautenhahn. 鈥淲e need to understand people鈥檚 intentions and expectations towards robots and investigate possible consequences of the robots we build.鈥
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