Living and Working With Robots

 

The widespread use of service robots has been predicted to be “just around the corner” for decades. 
This project seeks to overcome the prevailing technical and social hurdles to deploying these robots by building and studying them in communities where they will be used rather than just in laboratories and warehouses. The team will begin its work designing robots for use on UT Austin’s campus in university libraries and other facilities. The goal is to design these robots in a way that upholds human values, does not cause unintentional harm, and improves campus quality of life and productivity. With these elements in place, this project will help create a new model for human-machine partnerships.
 

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Planet Texas 2050 chair Paola Passalacqua (center), in a scene from a video about the Urban Integrated Field Lab Southeast Texas (SETx-IFL) project. Credit: UT Austin
July 5, 2024
Cultivating Interdisciplinary Collaboration
The University of Texas at Austin’s Bridging Barriers research grand challenges have demonstrated the value and impact made possible by interdisciplinary collaboration.
tower from east
Sept. 20, 2023
Good Systems Awards Funding to Advance Ethical AI Research in Core Project Areas
Good Systems has awarded funding to five projects that investigate the ethical implications of AI technologies in society in the areas of racial justice, surveillance and privacy, smart cities, and community-robot interaction.
AI Screen
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Can AI be Regulated?
Artificial intelligence systems are permeating into everyday life faster than ever before. That's why thousands of researchers who develop AI recently wrote an open letter pleading for help regulating the very technology they're creating. But can AI be regulated? Peter Stone, professor of computer science and Good Systems founding member, and Stuart Russell, professor of computer science at UC Berkeley, weigh in.

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