Steps Towards Best Practices For Robot Videos

TL;DR

This paper advocates for establishing community-agreed best practices for creating robot videos, providing initial guidelines and a checklist to improve transparency and standardization in robot demonstrations.

Contribution

It introduces a preliminary set of maxims and a checklist aimed at standardizing and improving the quality of robot videos through community collaboration.

Findings

Proposes initial best practice maxims for robot videos

Provides a checklist to ensure accurate robot video characterization

Highlights positive and negative examples from the community

Abstract

There are unwritten guidelines for how to make robot videos that researchers learn from their advisors and pass onto their students. We believe that it is important for the community to collaboratively discuss and develop a standard set of best practices when making robot. We suggest a starting set of maxims for best robot video practices, and highlight positive examples from the community and negative examples only from videos made by the authors of this article. In addition, we offer a checklist that we hope can act as an document that can be given to robotic researchers to inform them of how to make robot videos that truthfully characterize what a robot can and can not do. We consider this a first draft, and are looking for feedback from the community as we refine and grow our maxims and checklist.