Collaborative robots have been around for over a decade and widely adopted in many industries. To date, however, the word collaborative has not carried a lot of weight; basically amounting to “don’t hit the people.”
We can do better. The future of automation depends on next-level collaboration between humans and machines.
Robust.AI CTO and co-founder Rodney Brooks will describe the imminent future where people maintain their own agency while collaborating with robots each contributing to the same task, and around those same robots that may be working on a task autonomously. Collaboration and autonomy can enhance and empower humans, without compromising on flexibility, reliability or safety.