Leila Takayama
Leila Takayama is a human-robot interaction specialist who currently serves as Vice President of Design and HRI at Robust.AI, a company developing collaborative mobile robots for warehouse logistics. She is also the founder of Hoku Labs, a consulting firm that translates human-robot interaction research into product design recommendations for clients including Fortune 100 companies and tech startups. She previously held a tenured associate professorship at UC Santa Cruz, was a senior user experience researcher at GoogleX, and a research scientist at Willow Garage. She is best known for applying social science methods to the design of robotic systems and has contributed to over a dozen shipped robot products across consumer, industrial, service, and ocean domains.
“One of the researchers that helped me the most, her name is Leila Takayama. She's an expert at this. And what she explained to me is that humans have a certain expectation about how other beings are going to respond when they enter a space.”
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