Internet of Things 16: Safe devices all around us
Last time, I began a discussion of the safety of the devices that are becoming part of the Internet of things. Five principles aimed at better design of human–robot interactions are sensors for safety, context awareness, fast reaction time, robustness, and compliance (specifically, compliance motors). These provide a good starting point for exploring safety issues with big, industrial robots, but most future human–robot interactions and human–device interactions and interactions with the Internet of Things will not have anything to do with these large robots.