The Jetson’s Rosie gets a bit closer to reality
I’ve come to love my Roomba and Scooba. Between them and the dumber machines ( dishwasher, clothes washers and dryers ) house work is now just putting stuff away and feeding machines for the most part. A robot to scrub the bathrooms and kitchens is high on my wish list.
I haven’t seen any progress yet on my bath and kitchen scrubbing robot but MIT and Stanford labs are much closer to developing one that can load the laundry and dishwasher and put things away.
Domo uses artificial intelligence to grasp the bag of coffee and locate the shelf.
In a robotics lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the torso of a robot grabs a box and holds it out to a roboticist as he cleans up the lab. We may consider it mindless work, but Aaron Edsinger says it takes intelligence for this robot named Domo to lend a helping hand with household chores.
The Stanford team was able to recently demonstrate how STAIR could be asked to retrieve a stapler from one room and deliver it to the person in another. This not only pulls in manipulation research, but also voice recognition, navigation, and other previously separate fields of research. “For the STAIR project, it was time to revisit bringing these artificial intelligence tools back together. Taking tools from different threads of AI for a general purpose robot,” Ng says.
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A robot to scrub the bathrooms and kitchens is high on my wish list.
I’m sure my wife would love one of those, too, but in my opinion it’s much more important for iRobot to start working on a robot that can maintain either itself, or the other robots (empty the dust bin, clean brushes, especially hair and string that might disable it, replace filters, etc). That would make them almost completely automated (or automatable, anyway).
Bleyddyn
6 Jul 07 at 8:36 pm
That would be nice.
Some of their robots will go back to home and recharge themselves. But that’s still a long way from self cleaning and self emptying.
herself
7 Jul 07 at 4:30 pm