Collaborative Robots in the Wild: Challenges and Future Directions

This lecture by the instructor Nadia Figueroa explores the challenges and future directions of collaborative robots in real-world scenarios from a human-centric perspective. The presentation covers topics such as levels of collaboration, safety requirements, and the importance of standards like ISO TS 15066/TR 606. It delves into the requirements for truly collaborative robots, including reactive motion policies, compliance, efficient learning, and task-level reactivity. The lecture also discusses the use of dynamical system motion policies for reactivity and the iterative boundary learning approach to address invariance failures. Furthermore, it examines the application of temporal logic imitation in robotics and the challenges of achieving robustness to perturbations and failures.