Robots get creative to cut through clutter

Robots get creative to cut through clutter Pittsburgh PA (SPX) May 20, 2016 - Clutter is a special challenge for robots, but new Carnegie Mellon University software is helping robots cope, whether they're beating a path across the Moon or grabbing a milk jug from the back of the refrigerator. The software not only helped a robot deal efficiently with clutter, it surprisingly revealed the robot's creativity in solving problems. "It was exploiting sort of superhuman c ... more

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