#81 – Anca Dragan: Human-Robot Interaction and Reward Engineering

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.

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EPISODE LINKS: Anca's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ancadianadragan Anca's Website: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~anca/

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Here's the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.

OUTLINE: 00:00 - Introduction 02:26 - Interest in robotics 05:32 - Computer science 07:32 - Favorite robot 13:25 - How difficult is human-robot interaction? 32:01 - HRI application domains 34:24 - Optimizing the beliefs of humans 45:59 - Difficulty of driving when humans are involved 1:05:02 - Semi-autonomous driving 1:10:39 - How do we specify good rewards? 1:17:30 - Leaked information from human behavior 1:21:59 - Three laws of robotics 1:26:31 - Book recommendation 1:29:02 - If a doctor gave you 5 years to live... 1:32:48 - Small act of kindness 1:34:31 - Meaning of life https://lexfridman.com/anca-dragan/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=anca-dragan

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