Archive: Enabling End-Users to Program General-Purpose Robots
463 views · Published 13 November 2013 · 56:04 · Indexed 18 October 2026
Channel: UW Video · 2013 · Education
Advances in robotics research and supporting technologies are enabling the development of more and more sophisticated general-purpose robots. These robots could carry out useful tasks for and with humans, in application domains ranging from elder care to manufacturing. A key challenge is to enable end-users to program a general-purpose robot for their own unique purposes. In this talk, post-dotoral research fellow at Georgia Tech, Maya Cakmak, will highlight some of the challenges in allowing everyday people, who have no prior experience with robots or programming, to teach new skills or tasks to a robot. Cakmak will present techniques that she has developed for addressing those challenges, focusing on mechanisms for the robot to ask questions to its user. Cakmak will demonstrate how user-studies involving real human-robot interactions can lead to alternative representations, algorithms and user-interfaces that improve efficiency. She will conclude with a research agenda towards long-term deployment of end-user programmable robots.
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