Teaching robots lateral thinking: New algorithms could help household robots work around their physical shortcomings
Monday, February 25, 2013 - 07:30
in Psychology & Sociology
Many commercial robotic arms perform what roboticists call "pick and place" tasks: The arm picks up an object in one location and places it in another. Usually, the objects—say, automobile components along an assembly line—are positioned so that the arm can easily grasp them; the appendage that does the grasping may even be tailored to the objects' shape.