Taiwan University Students Build Tour-Guide Robot

Posted by timothy on Thursday August 20, 2009 @08:50PM from the to-your-right-to-your-left dept.

BobB-nw writes "A group of engineering students and their professor at National Taiwan University have built a robot that can map out the area it's operating in and offer guided tours. The robot, named 'Hsiao Mei,' uses laser mapping and GPS technology to navigate on its own, including around corners and obstacles such as tables and chairs. In the first public demonstration on Thursday, an engineering student with a wireless remote control first took the robot through the floor of a small museum on the university's campus so it could create a map for itself. After the initial run-through, the robot was able to make an unaided journey around the floor."

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Re:GPS? by pengipengi · 2009-08-20 21:27 · Score: 2, Interesting

Is it GPS then?
GPS is Global Positioning System. Even though the room is big, it's not global.
I think a better acronym would be LPS, Local Positioning System. But I've never heard that acronym before, and urban dictionary translates it to something else :P