Helper robots will be critical in many sectors: helping our elderly and disabled in assisted living facilities, conducting search-and-rescue missions in unforgiving terrain to save human lives, assisting our astronauts on the space station, or even monitoring our surroundings to keep us safe from national security threats. The ultimate goal of our research is to endow robots in these critical sectors with the ability to find creative ways to use and manipulate objects, especially when there is minimal and uncertain information.
@inproceedings{sarathy2016hrip,
title={Inferring Higher-Order Affordances for more Natural Human-Robot Collaboration},
author={Vasanth Sarathy},
year={2016},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) Pioneers Workshop},
url={https://hrilab.tufts.edu/publications/sarathy2016hrip.pdf}
}