Laundry Bot

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Laundry Bot
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Laundry Bot

• The special PR2 bot is the result of a
  collaboration between University of
  California-Berkeley researchers and the gadget
  guys at Willow Garage. The Robot very carefully
  inspects and then folds a pile of unfamiliar
  towels of various sizes on a table, sped up 50
  times, than a normal person.

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Laundry Bot in action
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• Willow Garage is giving out eleven PR2 Beta
  robots at no cost to leading research
  institutions in robotics
• Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
• Bosch
• Georgia Institute of Technology
• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
• MIT CSAIL
• Stanford University
• Technische Universität München
• University of California, Berkeley
• University of Pennsylvania, GRASP Lab
• University of Southern California
• University of Tokyo, JSK Robotics Laboratory

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Laundry Bot
http//www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId72150006
Here, is a video that demonstrates the tasks of
the Laundry Bot.
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Laundry Bot

• It takes the Laundry Bot 25 minutes per towel.
• The Robot has a special magnification camera that
  scans the towel to measure the shape to find the
  two adjacent angles.
• The Laundry Bot was created for working moms, and
  hotel maids.

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Laundry Bot

• The robot begins by picking up a randomly
  dropped towel from a table, goes through a
  sequence of vision-based re-grasps and
  manipulations-- partially in the air, partially
  on the table--and ?nally stacks the folded towel
  in a target location. The reliability and
  robustness of our algorithm enables for the ?rst
  time a robot with general purpose manipulators to
  reliably and fully-autonomously fold previously
  unseen towels, demonstrating success on all 50
  out of 50 single-towel trials as well as on a
  pile of 5 towels.
• -Ken Goldberg

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Pros and Cons
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