Enable robots to collaborate and coordinate effectively with multiple other agents, either people or robots;
Enable robotic systems to perceive, act, plan and learn in a distributed fashion;
Enable robots to learn efficiently from direct experience, people, other robots, and digital media; and
Enable robots to inform and instruct multiple other agents, either people or robots.
Enable natural interaction with novice users, including use of language and non-verbal communication;
Enable effective interaction with experts, including through remote operation;
Enable robots to reliably recognize and predict the behavior and activities of others;
Investigate social intelligence in robots, including use of mental models, perspective taking, and joint attention; and
Investigate issues of trust with respect to ubiquitous co-robots.
Investigate easily customizable robots for achieving a variety of tasks in a variety of situations;
Investigate easily personalizable robots for interacting with a variety of people;
Investigate composable hardware or software that supports the development of ubiquitous co-robots;
Investigate approaches to managing data produced/consumed by robots, especially data shared among agents; and
Investigate hardware and software approaches to increase mean time between failure by orders of magnitude and enable robots to fail gracefully.
Investigate designs and materials (e.g., soft robots) for facilitating ubiquitous interaction and for making co-robots inherently safe;
Facilitate physical collaboration (including peer-to-peer; collaborative manipulation; and augmentation of human capabilities);