investigator at the University of Pennsylvania’sGRASP Labhave taught Willow Garage ’s PR2 robot to key out faeces based on color , confront the offending substance , and dispose of them in a commonwealth - of - the - artistic creation plastic bucket . And judging from this video recording , UPenn gave GRASP a blank check for their fake excrement budget .
It takes the robot12 minutesto autonomously clean up a room that ’s been rug - bombed with 20 faecal specimen . Of course , hold lab ’s demonstration makes some dreadful assumptions about the future of sanitation .
If and when the poop - take up PR2 is deployed in public , hazard are it will be cleaning stray piling of canine leavings . In GRASP ’s telecasting , the room has apparently been take by a pack of boisterous woodland wolf . In the future , will our major planet be knee - deep in lupine egesta ?
Furthermore — as my colleague Stephen Totilo ofKotakuhypothesized upon keep this picture — will the PR2 usher in the end of human scatological duty ? Indeed , the future is shaping up to bean highly sinister place .
[ ViaIEEE Spectrum ]
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