Intel’s Robot Butler Serves, Clears, and Does Dishes

Our collective dream of a Jetsons-like future is inching closer to reality with a little help from Intel, which this week showed off HERB (the Home Exploring Robot Butler) to FastCompany.com. The robotic butler, built as part of a collaboration with the Quality of Life Technology Center and Carnegie Mellon University, uses six multi-core computers along with multiple sensors to perform various tasks around the kitchen. HERB has some powerful capabilities. It can serve, toss things in the trash (or recycling), sort dishes and place them in the dishwasher, and more. But there are still plenty of issues to overcome before HERB can will be scrubbing your pots. During our demonstration, Intel programmers spent nearly 10 minutes debugging code before the HERB was finally able to grasp a container and throw it away. Once HERB got going, though, we could see a real-life robo-maid become a very distinct possibility. Check out our video below. Ariel Schwartz can be reached on Twitter …

Tick Talk iPhone App – Robot Butler Speaks the News

Tick Talk iPhone and Touch App. Speaks the news headlines in a sophisticated english robotic butler voice. News source, greeting, and end saying is customizable. Little slice of the future in your hand
Video Rating: 5 / 5

Robot Butler: ‘Walking Fridge’ brings you drinks on command

This robot was designed, manufactured and programmed for a design competition (as part of the curriculum) held amongst first year Mechanical Engineering students at Delft university of Technology. The goal was to create a robot that could perform a delivery as quickly as possible, while also keeping as much as possible of the delivery on board. Our design didn’t win an award for fast delivery or keeping most water on board, but we did win the Delft Science Centre award because our design has the most potential for actual usage. Out of 50 teams competing, we built the only robot that could steer and navigate its route autonomously.

Belvedere, Our Butler Robot

This is Belvedere, our butler robot. His main purpose is to entertain guests and serve appetizers. He can be directed to any room on the first floor of the house with a knob on his back. He will tell jokes or dance on command. I created Belvedere for my son Ethan’s 1st birthday party. I used an iRobot Create as a drive platform.
Video Rating: 4 / 5

Robot Butler Commercial

Another fine, quality product from Evil Robot Empire, Inc. Special thanks once again to Dale Long, who played Robot Butler, and Brian Shaubmayer, who played the human type guy and directed the new live-action footage. Check out Dale’s web sites: byyourcommand.net www.youtube.com

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