Iuro robot asks humans for help navigating cities
October 16, 2012
Iuro, or Interactive Urban Robot, has 21 actuators inside its head, giving it fully controllable eyes, eyelids, eyebrows, lips, ears, and mouth. Stereo cameras above the eyes and a Kinect sensor in the chest help Iuro to interact with humans it runs into on the street, interpreting speech and gestures to enable it to find its way from place to place without using maps or GPS.
The overall goal with Iuro is to teach robots to navigate. The research will eventually enable autonomous robots to figure out what they don’t know and then ask the nearest human for help, without needing that human to provide information in the form of precise if/then statements.
Video Source: Interactive Urban Robot Project
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Comments (3)
by Vin
I want one.
by Uri
what if humans lie about navigating “all right just keep going up” fell off the cliff.
by Bri
From my own experiences, people can’t give acurate directions. Just after college I drove a messenger van. Forget people on the streets. Don’t ask gas station attendants. Mechanics might know. Ask police, fire department, or mailmen. They are the only reliable sources. If Luro asks a young person, they are just as likely to mess with it’s head, and get him good and lost.. People also don’t navigate by streets. They think in terms of land marks. Make a left at the Stop and shop, or drive till there is a fork in the road. My favorite, “do you know where the such and such is?”.