Teachable Robot Helps Assemble IKEA Furniture

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday April 24, 2013 @12:50AM from the next-step-world-domination dept.

cylonlover writes "Teaching a robot how to deal with real-world problems is a challenging task. There has been much progress in building robots that can precisely repeat individual tasks with a level of speed and accuracy impossible for human craftspeople. But there are many more tasks that could be done if robots could be supplied with even a limited amount of judgment. A robotics group led by Professor Sylvain Calinon at the Italian Institute of Technology is making progress in solving this problem and has developed a robot whose purpose in life is to help a person build an IKEA table."

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Assemble the robot by Kinthelt · 2013-04-24 01:00 · Score: 5, Funny

If they could now re-design the robot so that it could be shipped in flat boxes and assembled with an allen key, then that would be a huge step forward. Oh wait...

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Re:Turing test passed! by Chrisq · 2013-04-24 01:09 · Score: 5, Funny

Turing test passed!
Only if it shows frustration and regularly emits swear words like "what a piece of shit, the fucking holes don't line up".