Now, A Robot To Do Your Laundry
NEW YORK: If you find doing the laundry boring, a robot can soon come to your rescue. An Indian-origin scientist has developed an automated tool that is capable of doing laundry without any specific knowledge of what it has to wash.
The researches enabled the robot to do the laundry without knowing how many and what type of clothes needed to be washed.
"The widely imagined helper robots of the future are expected to 'clear the table,' 'do laundry' or perform day-to-day tasks with ease," said Siddharth Srivastava, a scientist at the United Technologies Research Center, Berkeley.
The researchers' key insight was to use human behaviour -- the almost unconscious action of pulling, stuffing, folding and piling -- as a template, adapting both the repetitive and thoughtful aspects of human problem-solving to handle uncertainty in their computed solutions.
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