Resumen de Polite robots learn to keep out of our way
Harmish Khambhaita and Rachid Alami at the University of Toulouse in France wanted to program a robot to mimic human manners like stepping around one another, yielding to groups and respecting personal space. In order to apply its etiquette lessons, the bot first needed a navigation upgrade. Robots normally get around using a two-step process, with the robot trying to predict where other objects will be, then planning how to move. If something moves unexpectedly between the steps, the software can freeze up. To fix this, the team wrote new software combining the steps, so the robot constantly adjusts its planned path.
