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Robot and humans have to understand each other
The smarter robots become, the more we will encounter them – at home, in the streets, in shops and in the workplace – and the more they will interact directly with humans. When that happens, robots will have to get wise to human behaviour, learn to work and communicate with people, and even learn from them. The opposite is true as well. Humans will need to have an idea of what robots are going to do, what they’re not going to do, what they can do and what they cannot do. Robots and humans are going to have to understand each other’s conduct.
Self-driving cars begin to understand road users’ behaviour
Drive around a busy Dutch city centre one day and observe everything that happens around you. As a driver, you have to constantly make choices. Does the pedestrian, who is suddenly crossing the road, see you? Will that van give you right of way? What is the mother with a child on the back of her bike planning to do? And then there’s the weather. You can be blinded by the sun. You see less in the shade and in the dark. The road could be slippery, or it could start to rain really hard. We’re usually unaware of how many intelligent decisions we make while driving, and the difficult conditions that we make them in.
Geerten van de Kaa
Associate professor, section Economics of Technology & Innovation (ETI)
Robert Verburg
Associate professor, section Economics of Technology & Innovation (ETI)
Bicycle research has overcome scepticism
Control theory in a selfish world
Jeroen van den Hoven
Full professor, section Ethics/Philosophy of Technology (EPT)
Looking over Vermeer’s shoulders
In 2018, Johannes Vermeer’s world-famous Girl with a Pearl Earring underwent a total ‘body scan’: using state-of-the-art techniques, the painting was studied in painstaking detail from top to bottom. It provided a wealth of new insights about the painting and the painter. Four TU Delft faculties worked on the project.
Caroline Bollen
Postdoc, section Ethics/Philosophy of Technology (EPT)
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