Robot Fetches Objects With Just A Point And A Click Date: March 20, 2008 ... Indoors, objects are usually found on smooth, flat surfaces with uniform appearance, such as floors, ...

Robots learn to handle objects, understand new places Date: September 4, 2011 Source: Cornell University Summary: Infants spend their first few months learning to find their way around and ...

Take a spin through Fraley's Robot Repair Shop, the. ... Artist Toby Atticus Fraley has long had a soft spot for found object robots, cobbling together lively robot sculptures from vintage objects.

Her Fobots, meaning “Found Object Robots,” take many shapes and forms as she crafts old tin cans, boxes, screws, bolts, handles and other mechanical parts to create the whimsical figures.

(Phys.org) -- If you hire a robot to help you move into your new apartment, you won't have to send out for pizza. ... 'Hallucinating' robots arrange objects for human use.

In tests, the robot correctly identified objects about 83 percent of the time in home scenes and 88 percent in offices. In a final test, it successfully located a keyboard in an unfamiliar room.