Saturday, May 11, 2013

Robot learns to recognize objects on its own

<p>HERB, a robot butler under development at Carnegie Mellon University, can discover objects by itself.</p><p>When all the humans went home for the day, a personal-assistant robot under development in a university lab recently built digital images of a pineapple and a bag of bagels that were inadvertently left on a table and figured out how it could lift them.</p><p>The researchers didn't even know the objects were in the room.</p><p>Instead of being frightened at their robot's independent streak, the researchers point to the feat as a highlight in their quest to build machines that can fetch items and microwave meals for people who have limited mobility or are, ahem, too busy with other chores.</p><p><a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/futureoftech/robot-learns-recognize-objects-its-own-1C9835906">Keep reading...</a></p>

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