We simply lost our closest friend.
(Credit: Video screenshot by Tim Hornyak/CNET)Everything awesome in technology eventually becomes mundane. I believe history shall record that robots, when the stuff of sci-fi and fantasy, entered this threshold once they started picking poop started.
Willow Garage's PR2, a humanoid by having an changing MacGyver skillset, has added shit disturber to the many talents.
Ben Cohen and buddies in the College of Pennsylvania's GRASP lab lately required the systems off this awesome new technology, named POOP SCOOP (Perception of Offensive Items and Sensorized Charge of Object Pickup). Hello, Ig Nobel prize.
Proven off at IROS 2011 in Bay Area, the $400,000 poop picker-upper IDs turds according to their color against a uniform eco-friendly area. After that it autonomously navigates towards the place and deploys a in a commercial sense available scooper, shedding the poop inside a bucket.
The bot can grab about one poop each minute and it has successful rate around 95 %. That's much better than me after i walk my sister's dog, but PR2 are only able to grasp relatively solid piles. Cowslips will need more research.
A minimum of we are able to rely on Rover's fascination with longer.
(Via IEEE Spectrum)
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