ADELPHI, Md. — U.S. Army researchers developed a novel computational model that allows robots to ask clarifying questions to soldiers, enabling them to be more effective teammates in tactical environments.
Future Army missions will have autonomous agents, such as robots, embedded in human teams making decisions in the physical world.
One major challenge toward this goal is maintaining performance when a robot encounters something it has not previously seen — for example, a new object or location.
Robots will need to be able to learn these novel concepts on the fly in order to support the team and the mission.