“It allows us to interpret and predict others’ intentions, allowing collaboration to emerge. This is an essential capability that our current robots are missing to allow them to work as a team with other robots and humans.”
The new framework, dubbed HUMAC (Human-guided Multi-Agent Collaboration), allows a single human coach to impart sophisticated teamwork skills to robots by intuitively guiding them through key strategic moments.
“We designed HUMAC to help robots learn from how humans think and coordinate in an efficient way,” added Chen.