Robot equipped with BioTacs learns what 'squishy' means

Researchers teach a robot equipped with BioTac sensors to identify haptic adjectives of real-world objects, like people!

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A joint project led by Katherine Kuchenbeker of University of Pennsylvania's Haptics Group and Trevor Darrell of UC Berkeley's ICSI have announced amazing progress in teaching a robot equipped with BioTac sensors to learn haptic adjectives of real-world objects.

The work, which was presented this year at ICRA 2013, won the award for best paper in cognitive robotics and we would like to congratulate our friends and colleagues at U Penn and Berkeley for their great work!

Read the original press release here.

Research Article:
V. Chu, I. McMahon, L. Riano, C. G. McDonald, Q. He, J. M. Perez-Tejada, M. Arrigo, N. Fitter, J. C. Nappo, T. Darrell, and K. J. Kuchenbecker, "Using Robotic Exploratory Procedures to Learn the Meaning of Haptic Adjectives," ICRA, 2013.