Cognitive Robotics: Making Robots Sense, Understand, and Interact

Abstract

Robots have spread from manufacturing floors to spaces occupied by humans. Although robots in these settings may improve the way humans work, the programming by hand of collaborative robots in such environments is increasingly difficult. We predict that recent breakthroughs in large-scale simulations, deep reinforcement learning, and computer vision collectively bring forth a basic level of cognitive abilities to robots that will lead to significant improvements of robotic applications over the next few years.