Why Can't We Interact With Robots Like This?

This is how we should be developing robotic systems:

Interactive Exploration of a Dynamical System from Bret Victor on Vimeo.

People have done partial implementations of this concept for robotics, but nobody has gone in whole-hog.  Though there are no doubt technical challenges to overcome, I believe the technology exists to make this feasible.  Time to get to work!

More details on Bret's take on applying this approach to various quantitative problems are here.

"And I'm imagining a tool that adapts complex situations so they can be seen, experienced, and reasoned about with our plain old brain."