Researchers at UC Berkeley have succeeded in bringing us one step closer to a Jetsons' lifestyle by developing software that enabled a robot to fold towels. That may not seem like a major feat, but it is -- figuring out what to do with an object it has never seen before is a breakthrough for a robot. What also made the accomplishment noteworthy was that PC advances allowed the team to work quickly and cheaply.
People can easily fold towels, but getting robots to do that has been a real challenge.
That's because the robot requires a complex combination of artificial intelligence, computer vision and machine learning in order to make an orderly stack from a jumbled pile of towels, doctoral student Jeremy Maitin-Shepard told TechNewsWorld.
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