STAIR Will Bring You A Stapler (Or Anything Else) As Long As You’re Not In A Rush
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Wednesday, 28 of January , 2009 at 1:04 am
Stanford’s STAIR (STanford AI Robot) is a couple years old, but it’s a good illustration of where home and workplace robotics should be (not necessarily is, but should be) heading. STAIR can interpret relatively ambiguous vocal commands, navigate around unfamiliar environments and objects, and reason to a limited extent. It has a sensor suite and a manipulator arm, and is designed to be an easy to use multitasking robot. In the video below, for example, STAIR is told to go get a stapler. It has to interpret a verbal command, navigate around a complex environment, find the stapler, figure out how to pick it up, and then bring it back:
STAIR is designed to be able to do all kinds of things, including doing the dishes, tidying up rooms, assembling IKEA furniture, and even cooking simple meals (although it’s obviously not there yet). This multitasking ability is a significant break from where most home robotics products have been trending lately… You buy one robot to vacuum the floor, one (or two) robots to mow the lawn, and one robot to clean the gutters. These are just examples, and I’m not necessarily suggesting that someone invents a Roombowerj (how cool would that be?), but having one robot that does everything you ask of it certainly seems to be where the future of home robotics lies.
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Comment by tepalai
Made Thursday, 5 of November , 2009 at 9:21 am
yeah right :) more !
