Ken Goldberg on Marketplace on Ambi Robotics
Marketplace spoke with BCNM professor Ken Goldberg about Ambi Robotic's robot Ambi Sort and how it might be of help this holiday season. From their conversation:
Ken Goldberg: We’ve come a long way in a year. We’ve gotten a lot better at figuring out where to grasp objects, how to scan them with faster scanners, all the arm motions have been sped up. The system is now ready to do the job. And I think what’s going on is that many vendors around the country, they’re all gearing up and trying out new things. This is going to be a big test year for new technologies. Then, those that work, they’re going to invest very heavily in starting in the spring, so that this will be able to solve these problems continuously in the future.
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