We Welcome Our Humanoid Robot!
(She needs a name.. How about Robot Dawn?)
And it’s the very first sale by Rodney Brooks’ Rethink Robotics.
I programmed her to do a two-arm cup shuffle across the table in a matter of minutes by simply moving the arms around to do what I envisioned and she generalized from that.
Visitors to our office can play with it as it’s meant to interact with humans without injury to either.
Here’s the photo sequence, from the out-of-the-box stretch, to the engineering student reception this evening: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/8681665751/#comment72157633338878085
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