Robo Soup is worth £1m

by safeeyah on May 15, 2008 at 9:04 am

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And £1 million question is if it can stir or not. This is the monetory value of the grant awarded to British scientists to find out if a robot can safely stir soup in a kitchen.

And soup is a serious business. Because we all know that soup can be thick or thin and alphabet soup with the wrong alphabets just won’t do. Neither will splashing hot soup all over a prospective customer.

Lab director Professor Chris Melhuish explained: “When we interact with other humans we are interpreting facial expression, body position, gestures, tone of voice as well as sharing a goal and understanding and following verbal instructions”.

“This project aims to develop the rules we need to introduce this level of sophistication into service robots who are working closely with people.”


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