Snackbot serves up some human-robot interaction… and snacks

Snackbot on his rounds delivering sustenance to those in need at CMU

If you’re a student at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) who is left gasping for breath when forced to drag yourself away from your studies to get a snack, rejoice! A CMU team has created a robot that is designed to deliver snacks to you. But the appropriately named Snackbot is far more than a vending machine on wheels. It is designed to serve as a research platform for the study of long-term Human-Robot Interaction and packs a healthy helping of technological goodies, including a laser navigation system, sonar sensors and a stereo vision camera for eyes…

Tags: autonomous,
Behavior,
Interactive,
navigation,
Research,
Robot,
Sensors,
University