This robot learned not to mess with other people’s stuff
Researchers have programmed a bot to grasp the concept of ownership
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RESPECTFUL ROBOT In experiments with blocks on a table, a polite robot learned which blocks belonged to someone, as well as social protocols for what it was allowed to do with owned objects.
X. Tan, J. Brawer and B. Scassellati/AAAI-19