Google, Intel, and Microsoft are funding what may become a
robot invasion. Money from the three tech companies has enabled researchers at Carnegie Mellon University to create a new series of Internet-connected robots that almost anyone can build using off-the-shelf parts. As part of the
Telepresence Robot Kit (TeRK), a joint effort unveiled last summer between the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute and Charmed Labs, associate professor of robotics Illah Nourbakhsh and members of his Community Robotics, Education, and Technology Empowerment (CREATE) Lab have created a series of "recipes" for robot building. (Those who recall
The Twilight Zone will be relieved to find that
"To Serve Man" is not among them.)
Google, Intel, And Microsoft Fund Robot 'Recipes'