More Automation Isn’t Always Better

Mallory Lindahl
The Breakdown: A CMU study followed blind participants navigating a museum with a robotic guide. It revealed that navigation strategies shift from moment to moment in unpredictable environments. The findings highlight the need to design assistive technologies that adapt to users’ changing decisions in real time. * * * Assistive navigation robots are only as [...] The post More Automation Isn’t Always Better appeared first on Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University .