Mightability: A Multi-state Visuo-spatial Reasoning for Human-Robot Interaction

We, the Humans, are capable of estimating various abilities of ourselves and of the person we are interacting with. Visibility and reachability are among two such abilities. Studies in neuroscience and psychology suggest that from the age of 12-15 months children start to understand the occlusion of others line-of-sight and from the age of 3 years they start to develop the ability, termed as perceived reachability for self and for others. As such capabilities evolve in the children, they start showing intuitive and proactive behavior by perceiving various abilities of the human partner.

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