Snackbot now serving food

Posted by The Mad Hatter on Oct 18th, 2009 and filed under Technology. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry
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The geniuses over at Carnegie Mellon University have made yet another cool creation. They were working on a robot that will cater to their food needs when they’re hungry, and now it’s finished. It’s called the “Snackbot”.

Snackbot is an autonomous mobile robot whose mission is to serve food to the school population.

Inventors explain more about it. “Snackbot is a mobile robot, about the size of a very small human, that rolls around on wheels, and will be delivering snacks to students, faculty, and office workers at Carnegie Mellon University.”

According to the Carnegie Mellon web site, Snackbot is a research platform of behavioral science research such as personalization.

But what comes after snacks? Clean-up! Researchers at the Intel Research’s Personal Robotics are also working on something similar, but theirs is a “robotic busboy” who will clean up all the trash.


(via LiveScience)