Teaching Humanoid Robots to Assist Humans for Collaborative Tasks

As technology has advanced, society has witnessed and participated in the creation of robots that can walk, talk, and recognize speech. To facilitate communication and collaboration between humans and humanoid robots, we develop a teaching-learning framework for human beings to teach humanoid robots to complete object identification and operation tasks. The robots learn from their human partners based on the transfer learning approach and can assist humans using their learned knowledge. Experimental results and evaluations suggest the success and efficiency of the developed approach in smart service contexts for human-robot partnerships. The future work of this study is also discussed.