Ask, Navigate, Repeat: Why Socially Aware Agents Are the Next Frontier
Directions are easy until they are not. A visitor walks into a shopping district, hears “go past the clothing store, then continue toward MATCONC,” and starts moving. A human can pause, notice the layout is ambiguous, ask another person, update the plan, and recover. A robot, on a good day, may confidently continue in the wrong direction with the serene composure of a machine that has never been embarrassed in public. ...