Zhiruo Wang

Towards Unobtrusive Physical AI: Augmenting Everyday Objects with Intelligence and Robotic Movement for Proactive Assistance

Users constantly interact with physical, most often passive, objects. Consider if familiar objects instead proactively assisted users, e.g., a stapler moving across the table to help users organize documents, or a knife moving away to prevent injury as the user is inattentively about to lean against the countertop.…