Virtual Reality for Safe Testing and Development in Collaborative Robotics

How do humans cooperate with robots that do not resemble a human being?

Are we made to more intuitively cooperate with robots similar to humans or do we treat all robots as mindless machines?

We want to answer these questions. Thanks to the use of virtual reality, we can simulate any sort of robots, such the currently available industrial robots such as Baxter.

In our latest article published together with Neurohab Lab, Paula Alexandra Silva and Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR|Lisboa) we summarize the state of the art in the use of VR for testing collaborative robots.

Check out  the article here.

More about the project here.