Now, robot that serves tasty treats
October 19th, 2009 - 5:50 pm ICT by ANIWashington, Oct 19 (ANI): Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have developed what they call a ‘Snackbot’, an autonomous mobile robot whose mission is to bring tasty treats.
They believe that Snackbot will serve as a research platform for projects in robotics, design, and behavioural science.
“Snackbot is a mobile robot, about the size of a very small human, that rolls around on wheels, and will be delivering snacks to students, faculty, and office workers at Carnegie Mellon University,” Live Science quoted the researchers as saying.
“The Snackbot will support research into robust autonomous operation in office environments.
“Our efforts range from multi-sensor fusion algorithms for perception, reasoning about dynamic spaces, communicating with people through verbal and non-verbal mechanisms, and planning with incomplete information,” the researchers added.
They will allow the robot to navigate through congested areas in a socially acceptable fashion, detect individual people moving near the robot, recognize when someone that the robot knows approaches it, and autonomously learn to recognize new objects. (ANI)
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