Reliable to Whom? The Case for Shared World Models in Human-Robot Collaboration
TL;DR for operators A collaborative robot can execute its internal policy consistently and still behave unreliably from the human partner’s perspective. The reason is that the acceptable action may change with the person’s goal, gaze, gesture, language, movement, prior interaction, and surrounding context. Kwok and colleagues argue that reliability in human-robot collaboration should therefore be understood partly as maintaining sufficiently aligned interpretations between human and robot, rather than only as achieving predictable or robust model behaviour.1 ...