April 1, 2010
Berkeley’s PR2 Robot Performs Simple Folding
UC Berkeley's own Assistant Professor, Pieter Abbeel has developed a household robot that will definitely offer a great help at home.
What it does? Simple folding of towels. To us humans, it may seem easy, but mind you when you several clothes or towels to fold, it may be tiresome or may not like to proceed with the task.
But not PR2, he can do the job seamlessly and with a pat-in-smooth gesture after every fold. PR2 does not miss out on folding different types and sizes of towels. You can see in ths video demonstration, how PR2 does the task "immaculately".
Pieter Abbeel used the robotics platform in Willow Garage. He developed a novel vision-based grasp point detection algorithm which can effectively detect the corners of a piece of cloth, using only geometric cues that are robust to variation in texture.
The best thing about PR2 is that it is able to sort out and analyze the type of cloth materials which he has no previous knowledge about.
Click here to read more about PR2, Vision-Based Grasp-Point Detection Algorithm
Written by: John
Filed Under: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Robotics, Robotics Sensors, Servos
Tags: Accuracy, Assistant Professor, Clothes, Cues, Detection Algorithm, Gesture, Grasp, Household Robot, Job, Novel, Piece Of Cloth, Pr2, Robotics, Seamlessly, Texture, Towels, Uc Berkeley, Variation, Video Demonstration, Willow
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