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. 2021 Nov 19;8:744526. doi: 10.3389/frobt.2021.744526

TABLE 3.

The level of robot autonomy.

Level Description
Wizard of Oz (Woz) the robot is controlled by a human in the non-collocated environment where the robot is present
Autonomous the robot acts based on its input without any external human control during decision-making
Combination the robot integrates different levels of autonomy (e.g. controlled fixed command patterns)
Scripted/fixed the robot follows scripted spatio-temporal command patterns, despite the external factors
Teleoperation the robot is controlled by a human present in the same environment as the robot is