Video Friday: AR And KAR Clean The House

Writing by Evan Ackerman on Friday, 6 of February , 2009 at 6:21 am

AR and KAR are what you get if you take the University of Tokyo, Toyota, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Sega, and Olympus, and tell them to get together and develop some home assistance robots. AR (stands for Assistant Robot) and KAR (Kitchen Assistant Robot) can get together and do the dishes and the laundry and sweep the floor. Although the functionality is pre-programmed, the robots can adapt to new objects and locations… For example, KAR can handle dishes it’s never seen before, and AR can find bits of laundry on its own, even if it’s never been in the room before. As with any badass robots that actually make life easier, commercial introduction is a decade or two away.

[ University of Tokyo ] VIA [ Physorg ]

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