Smarter Robots In The Works

CoBot, short for Collaborative Robot, is designed to be an office helper. The bots, made by a team at Carnegie Mellon University led by professor Manuela Veloso, can navigate around a building on their own. They are also smart enough to know when to ask h

Having robot office helpers could be pretty handy. But today's machines are nowhere close to the smart, free-roaming robots you see in movies. Right now, robots couldn't get around a building without tripping on chairs or getting stuck behind doors.

From Here & Now’s tech partner IEEE Spectrum, Prachi Patel reports on a new bot that will work better in human environments.

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