Communicating Failure Recovery with Robotic Body Movement

Communication of failure is important for robots to reduce negative impact on people and to maintain collaboration. To accomplish this, we used body movements to facilitate failure recovery in robotic arm. We re-frame the failure recovery process as the combination of attitude and behavior. We first design the robotic arm’s motion using bodystorming and then evaluate candidate designs in study one. Study Two supports investigating the best combination of attitude and behavior that communicates positive social influence, improving people’s overall perception of the robot and willingness to further collaboration. Our work could contribute to the area of interactive robot learning area by improving robot’s motion trajectory planning for social failure recovery.