In the future, if ever you find yourself in a house on fire, perhaps a few of your emergency responders will not be people at all.
Rather, they could be expertly programmed circuit boards with a knack for analyzing events around them without any help from humans and cooperating with one another to respond in the most effective manner. In other words, they may be robots that are independent, adaptive and cooperative.
This is what two University of Delaware professors — mechanical engineer Bert Tanner and linguist Jeffrey Heinz — are working on with support from the National Science Foundation.
"If you have an idea about how a fire is likely to spread, you reposition your resources to be as effective and efficient as possible," Tanner told InnovationNewsDaily. "Experienced humans can do that almost subconsciously. If we can enable machines to do that, it can lift the pressure off the shoulders of human supervisors."
To read the full, original article click on this link: Your Rescuer in the Future May Be … a Robot? | Robot Language | Social Robots | Tech News Daily
Author: Mary Staub
