Paper Info
Title
Robot-Human Agreements and Financial Transactions Enabled by a Blockchain and Smart Contracts.
Abstract
This paper explores the design of a robot and interaction model that enables a robot to engage in human-like financial transactions, and to enter into agreements with a human counterpart. More explicitly, (1) we bestow the agent with a cryptocurrency wallet and (2) define bilateral and multilateral agreements that can be automated as smart contracts in a distributed ledger. As a use case of a robot with such features, we describe roBU - a traveling robot, that can enter into financial agreements in exchange for assistance in traveling the world. With this effort, we expect to validate the idea of near-future scenarios where autonomous or semi-autonomous agents are endowed with, a type of, social autonomy and the ability to engage in financial transactions. We believe the latter can improve task completion and enable further exploration of robot-human relationships, dependencies and trust.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3173386.3177818
HRI (Companion)
Field
DocType
ISSN
Computer science,Autonomy,Financial transaction,Human–computer interaction,Blockchain,Cryptocurrency,Task completion,Robot,Human–robot interaction,Distributed ledger
Conference
2167-2121
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-5615-2
0
0.34
References 
Authors
1
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Irvin Steve Cardenas113.05
Jong-Hoon Kim2154.14