Bot that watches while you work can catch slip-ups

• Autores: Anna Nowogrodzki
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3055, 2016, pág. 19
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A robot called Watch-Bot can watch people work, learn the steps that make up the task, then remind people when they forget a step. In 24 trials watching humans at work in the office and kitchen, Watch-Bot was about 60 percent accurate in shining a laser pointer at the missed task, such as returning milk to the fridge. Ashutosh Saxena and Chenxia Wu, at Stanford University in California and Cornell University in New York, built Watch-Bot by mounting a depth-sensing camera on a tripod and connecting it to a computer and a laser pointer. The robot learns unaided, finding patterns in human movements it observes