AI's Emmy award goes to Swarmanoid robot book heist
Tuesday, August 16, 2011 - 05:00
in Mathematics & Economics
(PhysOrg.com) -- Robots removing a book off a shelf? Hardly what you would consider worthy of a video award. Not unless youre talking about a special platoon of robots known as a swarmanoid. Their book heist actually won the Oscars of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Video Competition 2011 last week. Spy-thriller music, a Hitchcock-like hum of mosquitoes, and a menacing whir-sound of blades did nothing to deter excitement, but the technical construct and techniques of these little snap-in, snap-out robots are interesting even without special effects.