By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Robotics & Machine Learning Daily News Daily News-A new study by Carnegie Mellon Univers ity researchers found that when roboticists and people with disabilities collabo rate on robot designs, interesting ideas emerge that could make existing robots more accessible and inspire new uses. In their research, School of Computer Science faculty members Sarah Fox and Niko las Martelaro highlight potential issues sidewalk robots encounter during deploy ment and propose solutions to mitigate them before the robots hit the streets. T heir new study, led by Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) Ph.D. student Howard Han, was presented last month at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2024).