What to Expect When You're Expecting Robots
The Future of Human-Robot Collaboration

For however smart your Roomba or Alexa might seem, historically, robots have been fairly dumb. They are only able to do their jobs when given a narrow set of tasks, confined in a controlled environment, and overseen by a human operator. But things are changing. A new breed of robots is in developmen......more

I have some mixed feelings regarding this book. The book does a good job in explaining the intricacies of human-automation interaction in lay terms and how the deployment of social robots may bring to light human factors challenges that, for now, we can’t even begin to anticipate. As someone that so......more

I learned from this book, but in all honesty found it a bit dull and repetitive at times. This book starts with an assumption that robots will be ubiquitous in the near future. This means that we will have autonomous cars, delivery robots, climbing robots, warehouse robots. The rest of the book talks......more

What did I expect from a book titled "…Expecting Robots?". Certainly not all the interesting reflections, nor the frightening predictions and surprising possibilities of the near future when humans and robots will live together. I had in mind the robots of science fiction (Asimov’s anyone?) and I ass......more

That was quite an interesting book to read! Many of the takes were regarding things I have never think about - though it seems quite intuitive after you read. It will be interesting to watch how the next years will play out, and compare with the authors take on the subject. It got me think about all......more