{"id":215518,"date":"2025-06-06T13:07:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T18:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/robots-learning-without-us-new-study-cuts-humans-from-early-testing"},"modified":"2025-06-06T13:07:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T18:07:03","slug":"robots-learning-without-us-new-study-cuts-humans-from-early-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/robots-learning-without-us-new-study-cuts-humans-from-early-testing","title":{"rendered":"Robots learning without us? New study cuts humans from early testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/robots-learning-without-us-new-study-cuts-humans-from-early-testing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Humans no longer have exclusive control over training social robots to interact effectively, thanks to a new study from the University of Surrey and the University of Hamburg.<\/p>\n<p>The study, which will be presented at this year\u2019s IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), introduces a new simulation method that lets researchers test their social robots without needing human participants, making research faster and scalable.<\/p>\n<p>Using a humanoid robot, the research team developed a dynamic scanpath prediction model to help the robot predict where a person would look in a social setting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humans no longer have exclusive control over training social robots to interact effectively, thanks to a new study from the University of Surrey and the University of Hamburg. The study, which will be presented at this year\u2019s IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), introduces a new simulation method that lets researchers test their [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215518","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}