Willow Garage PR2 Navigates An Office

Description

In this test run, Willow Garage’s PR2 robot (which we’ve covered before) was instructed to navigate a typical office environment consisting of eight doors, and was supposed to plug its power cord into ten outlets. One of the outlets was behind a locked door, but PR2 was able to understand that the door was locked and move on. It was also able to understand when it failed to do something, and then tried again, which is a crucial skill for robots that need to adapt to new and changing environments: there’s a difference between a task which cannot be completed, and a task which can be completed but might take a few tries.

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