WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:02:00.7350000" NOTE recognizability:0.833 NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.8594145 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.115 New companions coming to campus NOTE Confidence: 0.8594145 00:00:02.115 --> 00:00:04.230 researchers at the University of NOTE Confidence: 0.8594145 00:00:04.296 --> 00:00:06.318 Texas plan to bring these robots NOTE Confidence: 0.8594145 00:00:06.318 --> 00:00:08.897 to campus to learn more about how NOTE Confidence: 0.8594145 00:00:08.897 --> 00:00:10.837 they might interact with humans. NOTE Confidence: 0.8594145 00:00:10.840 --> 00:00:12.800 They want to see how those robots NOTE Confidence: 0.8594145 00:00:12.800 --> 00:00:15.570 do in a realistic environment, and NOTE Confidence: 0.8594145 00:00:15.570 --> 00:00:17.550 researchers tell K views Mike NOTE Confidence: 0.8594145 00:00:17.550 --> 00:00:19.918 Maroot that those robots may be NOTE Confidence: 0.8594145 00:00:19.918 --> 00:00:22.130 on campus for the next five years. NOTE Confidence: 0.8315129 00:00:23.330 --> 00:00:25.616 And the University of Texas campus. NOTE Confidence: 0.8315129 00:00:25.620 --> 00:00:27.144 You'll find students everywhere. NOTE Confidence: 0.8315129 00:00:27.144 --> 00:00:28.676 Stone benches, grassy quads, NOTE Confidence: 0.8315129 00:00:28.676 --> 00:00:30.208 getting out of class, NOTE Confidence: 0.8315129 00:00:30.210 --> 00:00:32.120 walking from building to building, NOTE Confidence: 0.8315129 00:00:32.120 --> 00:00:34.030 carrying laptops, books, grocery bags. NOTE Confidence: 0.8315129 00:00:34.030 --> 00:00:36.697 Really focusing as the first Test is NOTE Confidence: 0.8315129 00:00:36.700 --> 00:00:37.846 delivering of supplies. NOTE Confidence: 0.8315129 00:00:37.846 --> 00:00:40.520 A new research grant for UT looks NOTE Confidence: 0.8315129 00:00:40.520 --> 00:00:42.048 to make deliveries of NOTE Confidence: 0.8315129 00:00:42.048 --> 00:00:43.958 anything a student might need. NOTE Confidence: 0.8315129 00:00:43.960 --> 00:00:46.627 A bit easier goal is to develop NOTE Confidence: 0.8315129 00:00:46.630 --> 00:00:49.108 techniques and algorithms of doing it NOTE Confidence: 0.8315129 00:00:49.108 --> 00:00:52.357 such that it's easy to do to to replicate NOTE Confidence: 0.761033 00:00:52.360 --> 00:00:54.650 this in. In other areas, doctors NOTE Confidence: 0.761033 00:00:54.650 --> 00:00:56.340 Louise Centis, Joydeep Biswas and NOTE Confidence: 0.7140464 00:00:56.340 --> 00:00:59.060 Justin Hart are part of the team bringing NOTE Confidence: 0.7140464 00:00:59.060 --> 00:01:02.990 robots like this one from Boston Dynamics. NOTE Confidence: 0.84726673 00:01:02.990 --> 00:01:05.559 To campus we we are all fascinated NOTE Confidence: 0.84726673 00:01:05.559 --> 00:01:07.768 by quadrupeds. We already see food NOTE Confidence: 0.84726673 00:01:07.770 --> 00:01:09.610 delivery robots all over Austin, NOTE Confidence: 0.84726673 00:01:09.610 --> 00:01:11.450 all of them on wheels. NOTE Confidence: 0.84726673 00:01:11.450 --> 00:01:13.520 But these wheels have a hard NOTE Confidence: 0.84726673 00:01:13.520 --> 00:01:15.368 time in complex environments like NOTE Confidence: 0.84726673 00:01:15.368 --> 00:01:16.968 stairs or road construction. NOTE Confidence: 0.84726673 00:01:16.970 --> 00:01:19.546 With the dog like robots making deliveries, NOTE Confidence: 0.84726673 00:01:19.550 --> 00:01:21.058 the researchers can better NOTE Confidence: 0.84726673 00:01:21.058 --> 00:01:22.566 study the interactions between NOTE Confidence: 0.84726673 00:01:22.566 --> 00:01:23.969 those robots and people. NOTE Confidence: 0.84726673 00:01:23.970 --> 00:01:26.166 Is this someone's office or is NOTE Confidence: 0.84726673 00:01:26.170 --> 00:01:28.378 this the front door? And what's NOTE Confidence: 0.84726673 00:01:28.378 --> 00:01:30.590 appropriate in this location? And where NOTE Confidence: 0.84726673 00:01:30.590 --> 00:01:32.930 are you going first? Robots will. NOTE Confidence: 0.84726673 00:01:32.930 --> 00:01:34.874 Come to campus next year and NOTE Confidence: 0.84726673 00:01:34.874 --> 00:01:36.480 run deliveries through an app. NOTE Confidence: 0.84726673 00:01:36.480 --> 00:01:38.095 And while the robots can NOTE Confidence: 0.84726673 00:01:38.095 --> 00:01:39.387 operate all over campus, NOTE Confidence: 0.84726673 00:01:39.390 --> 00:01:41.399 the plan for now will have the NOTE Confidence: 0.84726673 00:01:41.399 --> 00:01:42.704 robots delivering wipes and NOTE Confidence: 0.84726673 00:01:42.704 --> 00:01:44.236 sanitizer between two buildings, NOTE Confidence: 0.84726673 00:01:44.240 --> 00:01:46.494 but crossing Speedway through the heart of NOTE Confidence: 0.8396272 00:01:46.500 --> 00:01:49.076 campus. We want the robots to be deployed NOTE Confidence: 0.8396272 00:01:49.076 --> 00:01:51.338 everywhere, not just in like pre map NOTE Confidence: 0.8396272 00:01:51.340 --> 00:01:53.070 set scenarios. Eventually the robots NOTE Confidence: 0.8396272 00:01:53.070 --> 00:01:55.410 will deliver more and have a play NOTE Confidence: 0.8396272 00:01:55.410 --> 00:01:58.820 function where they can fetch things. NOTE Confidence: 0.6634775 00:01:58.820 --> 00:02:00.735 In Austin, I'm Mike Merritt.