Monday, October 21, 2002
11:00 AM
CSB 209
Thomas Kollar, Eric Meisner, Jonathan Schmid, and Tori Sweetser
U. Rochester
Mabel: Building a Robot Designed for Human Interaction
Mable (the mobile table) is a robotic system that can perform waypoint- and vision-guided navigation, speech recognition and generation, person- and face-finding, and face-following. Mabel can interact intelligently with humans in two different settings: food and information service. The robot's architecture is flexible and easily adaptable to other tasks such as search and rescue. Mabel was the winner of the 2002 robot host event at AAAI's August 2002 conference in Edmonton, Alberta.