Robots that use language

S Tellex, N Gopalan, H Kress-Gazit… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
This article surveys the use of natural language in robotics from a robotics point of view. To
use human language, robots must map words to aspects of the physical world, mediated by …

An overview of the distributed integrated cognition affect and reflection diarc architecture

M Scheutz, T Williams, E Krause, B Oosterveld… - Cognitive …, 2019 - Springer
DIARC has been under development for over 15 years. Different from other cognitive
architectures like SOAR or ACT-R, DIARC is an intrinsically component-based distributed …

40 years of cognitive architectures: core cognitive abilities and practical applications

I Kotseruba, JK Tsotsos - Artificial Intelligence Review, 2020 - Springer
In this paper we present a broad overview of the last 40 years of research on cognitive
architectures. To date, the number of existing architectures has reached several hundred …

Unified pragmatic models for generating and following instructions

D Fried, J Andreas, D Klein - arxiv preprint arxiv:1711.04987, 2017 - arxiv.org
We show that explicit pragmatic inference aids in correctly generating and following natural
language instructions for complex, sequential tasks. Our pragmatics-enabled models reason …

Language-capable robots may inadvertently weaken human moral norms

RB Jackson, T Williams - 2019 14th ACM/IEEE International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Previous research in moral psychology and human-robot interaction has shown that
technology shapes human morality, and research in human-robot interaction has shown that …

Virtual, augmented, and mixed reality for human-robot interaction

T Williams, D Szafir, T Chakraborti… - Companion of the 2018 …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
The 1st International Workshop on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality for Human-Robot
Interactions (VAM-HRI) will bring together HRI, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Mixed …

Coordinating shared tasks in human-robot collaboration by commands

A Angleraud, A Mehman Sefat, M Netzev… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Human-robot collaboration is gaining more and more interest in industrial settings, as
collaborative robots are considered safe and robot actions can be programmed easily by, for …

Why and how robots should say 'no'

G Briggs, T Williams, RB Jackson… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Language-enabled robots with moral reasoning capabilities will inevitably face
situations in which they have to respond to human commands that might violate normative …

Covert robot-robot communication: Human perceptions and implications for human-robot interaction

T Williams, P Briggs, M Scheutz - Journal of Human-Robot Interaction, 2015 - dl.acm.org
As future human-robot teams are envisioned for a variety of application domains,
researchers have begun to investigate how humans and robots can communicate effectively …

Transparency through explanations and justifications in human-robot task-based communications

M Scheutz, R Thielstrom, M Abrams - International Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Transparent task-based communication between human instructors and robot instructees
requires robots to be able to determine whether a human instruction can and should be …