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Washington, Oct 19 (ANI): Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have developed what they call a 'Snackbot', an autonomous mobile robot whose mission is to bring tasty treats.
They believe that Snackbot will serve as a research platform for projects in robotics, design, and behavioural science.
"Snackbot is a mobile robot, about the size of a very small human, that rolls around on wheels, and will be delivering snacks to students, faculty, and office workers at Carnegie Mellon University," Live Science quoted the researchers as saying.
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"The Snackbot will support research into robust autonomous operation in office environments.
"Our efforts range from multi-sensor fusion algorithms for perception, reasoning about dynamic spaces, communicating with people through verbal and non-verbal mechanisms, and planning with incomplete information," the researchers added.
They will allow the robot to navigate through congested areas in a socially acceptable fashion, detect individual people moving near the robot, recognize when someone that the robot knows approaches it, and autonomously learn to recognize new objects. (ANI)
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