People can easily fold towels, but getting robots to do that has been a real challenge.
That’s because the robot requires a complex combination of artificial intelligence, computer vision and machine learning in order to make an orderly stack from a jumbled pile of towels. However, a research team at the University of California at Berkeley has developed software enabling a robot to fold a variety of towels that it had never before encountered.
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Researchers Achieve Breakthrough With Towel-Folding Robot
Posted by: Richard Adhikari April 7, 2010 12:34 PMPeople can easily fold towels, but getting robots to do that has been a real challenge.
That’s because the robot requires a complex combination of artificial intelligence, computer vision and machine learning in order to make an orderly stack from a jumbled pile of towels. However, a research team at the University of California at Berkeley has developed software enabling a robot to fold a variety of towels that it had never before encountered.