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Photos: Robots get smart

July 19, 2006 8:30 AM PDT

Kevin Yoon (left) and Jeremy Stolarz of Carnegie Mellon tweak their unresponsive CMAssist, a RoboCup 2006 participant intended to provide assistance in the home.

"Why are computers such pains?" Stolarz complained.

"I don't know. You should give a talk on that," quipped Yoon.

The goal of the CMAssist RoboCup@Home team is to develop a robot that can recognize complex human tasks from observation, analyze the task and then learn how to complete the task.

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