{"id":106210,"date":"2020-04-29T01:42:37","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T08:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/conduct-a-bot-system-uses-muscle-signals-to-enable-more-natural-human-robot-communication"},"modified":"2020-04-29T01:42:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T08:42:37","slug":"conduct-a-bot-system-uses-muscle-signals-to-enable-more-natural-human-robot-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/conduct-a-bot-system-uses-muscle-signals-to-enable-more-natural-human-robot-communication","title":{"rendered":"Conduct-A-Bot system uses muscle signals to enable more natural human-robot communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3VJpw3ktCGo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Albert Einstein famously postulated that \u201cthe only real valuable thing is intuition,\u201d arguably one of the most important keys to understanding intention and communication.<\/p>\n<p>But intuitiveness is hard to teach\u2014especially to a machine. Looking to improve this, a team from MIT\u2019s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) came up with a method that dials us closer to more seamless human\u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/robot\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">robot<\/a> collaboration. The system, called \u201cConduct-A-Bot,\u201d uses human <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/muscle\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">muscle<\/a> signals from wearable sensors to pilot a robot\u2019s movement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe envision a world in which machines help people with cognitive and physical work, and to do so, they adapt to people rather than the other way around,\u201d says Professor Daniela Rus, director of CSAIL, deputy dean of research for the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing, and co-author on a paper about the system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albert Einstein famously postulated that \u201cthe only real valuable thing is intuition,\u201d arguably one of the most important keys to understanding intention and communication. But intuitiveness is hard to teach\u2014especially to a machine. Looking to improve this, a team from MIT\u2019s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) came up with a method that dials [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}