Dynamaid Fetches Beer From Fridge
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Wednesday, 7 of July , 2010 at 12:51 am
One facet of RoboCup 2010 was the RoboCup@Home competition, which aims to “foster the development of useful robotic applications that can assist humans in everyday life.” Obviously, such applications must being with fetching beer from a fridge.
The robot in the video above is Dynamaid, from team NimbRo at the University of Bonn. It took second overall in the RoboCup@Home competition, which also included events like shopping in an actual supermarket. For chips. To go with the beer. Obviously, robots are getting smarter.
[ Dynamaid @Home ]
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Comment by Joey1058
Made Thursday, 8 of July , 2010 at 6:03 pm
Okay, I’ve seen four bots now (if you count the homebuilt that was on Letterman) that can deliver beer. If I had to vote on one, I’d pick Dynamaid. Why? design. This model is different because it’s surprisingly simple. It raises and lowers like Willow Garage’s PR2. Stock parts. And it uses a laptop processor. And I like the way it turns it’s head to look in the direction it wants to go in. The only design change I would make to this is to use the wheeled base similar to WowWee’s annoying Tri Bot. Such a wheeled base would make this design perfect. And if it ran Willow’s open source software. Wow!
