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I have long advocated for exactly this in the context ofrobotic laundry folding, or more broadly, other robot recognition and manipulation tasks. Why not make it easy when we can make it easy?
I’ll be honest with you: The end of this video is freaking me out a little bit for some reason.
When you don’t spend any money on sensors for your robots, you can afford much bigger wheels.
Here are a couple more teasers from the upcoming ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST).
I appreciate the designer of this single motor drone crediting previous research, which included some cooldrones from UPennthat we wrote about in 2014.
Evan Ackermanis a senior editor atIEEE Spectrum. Since 2007, he has written over 6,000 articles on robotics and technology. He has a degree in Martian geology and is excellent at playing bagpipes.