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Industrial Mobile Manipulator: Little Helper

Written by Samuel Bouchard | Jan 05, 2011 3:45 PM

I just posted an article on IEEE Spectrum Automaton (read the full article) about the Little Helper, shown in the video below.

What caught my interest in this project is that it appears to be at the intersection of two distinct robotics areas: the well established industrial robotics area and the emerging service robotics area. This confluence is very promising. Also, Little Helper is a good example of integrating existing technologies into a novel robotics product, which, as Hvilshøj puts it, "is essential in order to gain acceptance and simplify implementation in real-world industrial environments."