Robot-Human Interaction with Stefanie Tellex

Robots sometimes need help from humans when solving complex problems.

Successfully solving a problem often demands a strong model for communication and well-trained robots.

Stefanie Tellex is an assistant professor at Brown University whose research focuses on constructing robots that use natural language to communicate with humans.

Questions

• The goal of your research is to construct robots that seamlessly use natural language to communicate with humans. How close are we to that goal?
• Why is communication between robot and human a problem that is rooted in both linguistics and philosophy?
• Why do we need a mathematical framework for communicating with robots?
• Do robots perceive our physical environment in the same way that people do?
• What is the future of human-robot interaction?
• With artificial intelligence, are we summoning the demon, as Elon Musk says?

Links

• Stefanie’s Research Page
• Best Paper Award at the Robotics: Science and Systems Conference
• Asking for Help Using Inverse Semantics
• Stefanie’s Talk at RSS 2014

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