#81 – Anca Dragan: Human-Robot Interaction and Reward Engineering
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<p>Anca Dragan is a professor at Berkeley, working on human-robot interaction — algorithms that look beyond the robot’s function in isolation, and generate robot behavior that accounts for interaction and coordination with human beings.</p>
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<p>Here’s the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.</p>
<p>OUTLINE:<br />
00:00 – Introduction<br />
02:26 – Interest in robotics<br />
05:32 – Computer science<br />
07:32 – Favorite robot<br />
13:25 – How difficult is human-robot interaction?<br />
32:01 – HRI application domains<br />
34:24 – Optimizing the beliefs of humans<br />
45:59 – Difficulty of driving when humans are involved<br />
1:05:02 – Semi-autonomous driving<br />
1:10:39 – How do we specify good rewards?<br />
1:17:30 – Leaked information from human behavior<br />
1:21:59 – Three laws of robotics<br />
1:26:31 – Book recommendation<br />
1:29:02 – If a doctor gave you 5 years to live…<br />
1:32:48 – Small act of kindness<br />
1:34:31 – Meaning of life</p>