Two contributions involving the Neuromotor Control and Training research group have been published in the recently released open-access volume Hybrid Societies – Humans Interacting with Embodied Technologies, Volume 1. The volume emerged from the 1st International Conference on Hybrid Societies (March 2023, TU Chemnitz) and the work of the Collaborative Research Center “Hybrid Societies”, and focuses on interactions between humans and intelligent embodied technologies.
One chapter by Kopnarski et al. investigates human handover movements. The results show that when receiving an object, individuals can infer information about the object’s weight from the observed movement of the giver, enabling more precise anticipatory control of grip force.
A second chapter by Voelcker-Rehage et al. provides an overview of current research on observational learning in humans and robots. The authors highlight similarities and differences in the underlying mechanisms and discuss how insights from movement science may contribute to the development of new learning and programming approaches for robotic systems.
Together, these contributions advance the understanding of coordination and learning in future “hybrid societies”, in which humans and intelligent technologies increasingly collaborate.