UK’s STRAND project aims to program robot security guards and carers
This article offers another cost cutting solution to hard pressed Local Government workers. It reveals:
A British-led consortium is developing new computer software to help the robots of the future navigate through the messy and cluttered environments of working life, and work independently for up to 120 days.
Dr Nick Hawes, lecturer in intelligent robotics at the University of Birmingham, is co-ordinating the work. He says that although robots can currently work in “predictable” environments for short periods of times, he wanted to push for further capacity.
Perhaps not….