CHRIS project aims to put a robot in the kitchen

May 16th, 2008 | Category: Robots

We’re not assured what’s up with the sudden rash of news about EU- and EC-funded robotics research, but we’re not going to turn down robotic kitchen assistance either, so say hello to the Cooperative Human Robot Interaction System (CHRIS) project, which aims to build a service robot capable of working safely with humans. According to the researchers, the plan is to “to develop the rules we need to introduce that level of sophistication into service robots who are working closely with humans,” and to that end they’ve already built several prototypes and

started analyzing specific scenarios, like how a bot should react to accidentally splashing a human worker with hot soup, or how to read facial expressions and tones of voice. Thats fine by us — we’re pretty convinced an army of deathbots can’t do too much damage with soup — but let’s assemble certain we leave the chopping to the humans, k?

[Via Primidi]

Original post by Nilay Patel