It’s not uncommon for people to take their foot off the pedal at work if they know others will cover for them. And it turns out, the same might be true when people think robots have got their backs.
While robots have been a fixture in the workplace for decades, they’ve typically taken the form of heavy machinery that workers should steer well clear of. But in recent years, with advances in AI, there have been efforts to build collaborative robots that work alongside humans as teammates and partners.
Being able to share a workspace and cooperate with humans could allow robots to assist in a far wider range of tasks and augment human workers to boost their productivity. But it’s still far from clear how the dynamics of human-robot teams would play out in reality.
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