Comment by rtkwe
1 day ago
That's actually more of a solved problem. Robot arms that can track the force they're applying and where to avoid injuring humans have been kicking around for 10-15 years. It let them go out of the mega safety cells into the same space as people and even do things like letting the operator pose the robot to teach it positions instead of having to do it in a computer program or with a remote control.
The term I see a lot is co-robotics or corobots. At least that's what Kuka calls them.
That's fine for wheeled robots or robots bolted to the floor but for legged robots, especially bipeds, the hard question is how to prevent them from falling over on things. These don't look heavy enough to be too dangerous for a standing adult but you've still got pets/children to worry about.