Tasks easy for people, hard for robots
Updated: 2011-07-24 06:21
By John Markoff(The New York Times)
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A robot at the University of California, Berkeley, can size up a towel, detect its central point and corners, then lay it flat, fold it and stack it with others. Photographs Courtesy of the University of California, Berkeley |
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Today's robots look nimble only on video that has been sped up, as was the case with this University of California machine. |
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