By Rafael Patron, president of the Scientific-Technical Committee, AIPIA
Supervised autonomy in robotics is usually described from the robot’s side: the machine does the repetitive work, and a person steps in when something goes wrong.
The harder design question sits on the human side, and many projects leave it until commissioning, when nobody has yet agreed who answers the robot when it gets stuck.
Picture a depalletising cell on a night shift. A pallet arrives wrapped in a reflective film the vision system has never seen, the gripper fails twice, and the line behind it begins to back up. [Read more…] about Opinion: Supervised autonomy in robotics starts with the robot’s worst day