By keeping track of all the contents of your kitchen and able to perform simple tasks with its impressive arms could this be the robot who’ll have your dinner ready by the time you get home from a hard days graft?
Developed by the Technical University of Munich the unnamed machine utilises radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags on dishes and utensils in its kitchen and avoids some of the pitfalls from previous assistants who had trouble differentiating between objects, think soup ladel versus chopping knife and you get the picture.
According to project leader Michael Beetz “If you want to interpret and understand everyday activities by using vision data, it’s very complicated, error-prone, and resource intensive,” adding “If you do it with RFID tags, there is very little sensor information, but it’s highly correlated with the activities you are performing.”
The next steps for the team are to integrdate open-source software into the homehelping droid which will help it retreive information and instruction directly from the internet.
So there’s a little bit of work to be done on this bot yet before it becomes ideal marriage material.
