Ayse Kucukyilmaz is Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham, PI on Horizon’s Consumer Products Campaign project FAILSAFE and founding member of the CHART research group. Her research focus is human-centered robotics, where she specialises in haptic shared and traded control for physical human-robot interaction. In this latest edition of Robot Talk, Ayse explains adjustable autonomy and talks about collaboration and failure in robots, highlighting the research being carried out as part of FAILSAFE – a project in partnership with BEKO – which is addressing what does failure actually mean? (at 23:00 in).