May 05, 2004
Humanoids for the Home
From an amusing article on entertainment robotics in Technology Review:
Help in negotiating the complex environment of a modern home, enthusiasts argue, will come from a network of tiny radio frequency identification chips. At the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tsukuba, scientists are training robots to sort and wash dishes by combining visual data with RFID input. If a robot sees something round and platelike, it scans the object. The plate's RFID chip reports, in essence, I'm a plate! I get washed and put in the corner cupboard, second shelf!
Posted by sfisher at May 5, 2004 09:26 PM
