When the robot puts itself in your shoes. Managing and exploiting human and robot beliefs

We have designed and implemented new spatio-temporal reasoning skills for a cognitive robot, which explicitly reasons about human beliefs on object positions. It enables the robot to build symbolic models reflecting each agent's perspective on the world. Using these models, the robot has a better understanding of what humans say and do, and is able to reason on what human should know to achieve a given goal. These new capabilities are also demonstrated experimentally.