Most of us geeks had a dream – how awesome would it be if we can get a sandwich by typing on our linux terminal. This is immortalized by the XKCD comic piece above.
Now, researchers from Technical University at Munich are bringing this to reality. Without any human intervention the robots were able to parse the command, divide the complex task into a number of units and perform them using their navigational skills. They can now make popcorn, sandwiches and sausages. In a decade, we might see these robots into kitchen rooms. These robots were given to the university for free by a startup and use the opensource ROS robotics framework. Learn more.
These robots are like the PCs of 1970s – great for geeks but with limited practical applications. But, as the software is getting increasingly sophisticated we might see more of these programmed for various practical uses.
A few months ago MIT researchers made a similar robot for baking cookings.
Also see this IEEE spectrum article
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