Robots learn how to arrange objects by 'hallucinating' humans into their environment (w/ video)
Friday, June 21, 2013 - 09:00
in Mathematics & Economics
(Phys.org) —A team of robotics engineers working in the Personal Robotics Lab at Cornell University (led by Ashutosh Saxena) has developed a new way to give robots a context-sensitive way to organize a room. Instead of providing the robots with a map, the researchers instead cause the robot to "imagine" how a human being would use objects in a room and then to place them accordingly.