Our Human Mode Robotics team had a great time collaborating with OSU and ASU on some of their exciting and practical grant work in robotics this past year.
This particular study dove into understanding customer preferences when interacting with service robots, which is a very practical subject since we will all be interacting with more service robots in the future.
To help facilitate OSU and ASU's University Grant Research, we were able to lend our robotics and software development skills to build a custom robot UI (user interface) according to their requirements that automatically generates avatars with varying personality elements so researchers could measure human customer engagement with them. Our robotics engineers also built a quick serving robot chassis that could maneuver in a restaurant environment and capture customer orders.
A big thanks to Dr. Lisa Slevitch from OSU's School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Dr. Katsiaryna Siamionava from ASU for including us in the project, and Dr. Skye Cooley from OSU for building connections between local researchers and industry partners.
We love seeing #OSU and #Oklahoma educators driving robotics innovation in the state, and are excited to be a part of it.
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