CHRIS Project Aims to Put a Robot in the Kitchen
We're not certain what's up with the sudden rash of news about EU- and EC-funded robotics research, but we're not going to turn down robotic kitchen assistance either, so say hello to the Cooperative Human Robot Interaction System (CHRIS) project, which aims to build a service robot capable of working safely with humans. According to the researchers, the plan is to "to develop the rules we need to introduce this level of sophistication into service robots who are working closely with people," and to that end they've already built several prototypes and started testing specific scenarios, like how a bot should react to accidentally splashing a human worker with hot soup, or how to read facial expressions and tones of voice. That's fine by us -- we're pretty certain an army of deathbots can't do too much damage with soup -- but let's make sure we leave the chopping to the people, k? [Source: University of Bristol via Primidi]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Chris Macdonald @ May 17th 2008 4:48PM
WOOOOT... does anyone even read switched?
mike @ May 18th 2008 9:23AM
YEA, THATS COOL...PLUS IF THEY GET OUT OF LINE.....THERES ALWAYS THE GOOD OL TRUSTY FIREARM..