The COVID19 pandemic has presented novel challenges for routine tasks such as surgery and cleaning. Social distancing makes working in close proximity difficult, exacerbated by additional pressures due to employee sickness and austerity measures.

 

These challenges present increased opportunities for human-robot collaborative teams but questions remain relating to trust towards the robot within the team and more broadly, the trust of affected groups (e.g., patients) towards tasks carried out by robot-assisted teams.

This interdisciplinary TAS Hub agile project explored different aspects related to trust within and towards human-robot teams in two essential tasks: surgery and cleaning.

Project Team

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Nicholas Watson

Nicholas Watson

Associate Professor, University of Nottingham

Lead contact
Paul Luff

Paul Luff

Professor in Organisations and Technology, King’s College London

Lead contact
Joel Fischer

Joel Fischer

Associate Professor, University of Nottingham

Co-investigator

Pauline Leonard

Professor of Sociology, University of Southampton

Co-investigator

Christine Evers

Lecturer in Computer Science and Machine Listening, University of Southampton

Co-investigator
Richard Hyde

Richard Hyde

Professor of Law, Regulation and Governance, University of Southampton

Co-investigator
Prokar Dasgupta

Prokar Dagupta

Professor of Robotic Surgery and Urology, King’s College London

Co-investigator

Ayse Kucukyilmaz

Assistant Professor of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, University of Nottingham

Co-investigator
Maria Galvez Trigo

Maria Galvez Trigo

University of Nottingham

Research Fellow
Dominic Price

Dominic Price

University of Nottingham

Research Fellow

Sylvaine Tuncer

King’s College London

Research Fellow
Chira Tochia

Chira Tochia

University of Southampton

Research Assistant
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