What Should a Workplace Robot Do When It Thinks You’re Distracted?

What Should a Workplace Robot Do When It Thinks You’re Distracted? Seeing Machines is taking its driver-monitoring work into robotics. The company says its new platform builds a live 3D map of people and objects, interprets human behavior and anticipates risk. Its vehicle systems are already in more than eight million vehicles; it hasn’t named robot customers or a deployment date. A robot in a shared aisle should notice that someone has stepped into its path. I’m fine with it using an attention guess to slow down or stop. I don’t want ‘distracted worker’ turning into a performance record. Show the person the plain physical reason: ‘path entered,’ ‘pose uncertain,’ or ‘sensor view blocked.’ When the hazard clears, erase the inference. What would you let a workplace robot infer about you?