Automata Lab
One of the main focuses of the Automata Lab is ____________ guarantees.
What is SAFETY?
Robots made from flexible materials
What are SOFT ROBOTS?
Robots that walk on two or more legs.
What are LEGGED ROBOTS?
Pepper does this to help dementia patients feel less lonely and better about themselves.
What is TALKS TO THEM?
This robot is designed to help nurses by doing simple, repetitive tasks.
What is IONA?
The Stretch3's robotic hand is called this.
Robots that bend along their length.
What are CONTINUUM ROBOTS?
Robots designed to look and move like humans, often with a torso, head, arms, and legs.
What are HUMANOID ROBOTS?
What is MOVE AROUND?
The nursing robot gives nurses more time to focus on this human quality that means understanding and caring.
What is EMPATHY?
This is when a robot hand follows an object.
What is TRACKING?
A technique to fold flat paper or plastic into a 3D object.
What is ORIGAMI?
The part at the end of a robot arm that grasps or interacts with objects.
What is a GRIPPER or END EFFECTOR?
Pepper uses these to help people remember important things if their memory is not very good.
What is PICTURES, FAVORITE FOODS, or STORIES?
When a person controls a robot from a distance by using a joystick or VR headset.
What is TELEOPERATION?
The D in RGB-D camera stands for this.
What is DEPTH?
Machine that prints with plastic instead of ink.
What is a 3D PRINTER?
Sensors that allow robots to "see" the depth by measuring distance to surfaces.
What are DEPTH CAMERAS?
Pepper uses CV techniques like YOLOv11 and Mask R-CNN for this task.
What TECNOLOGY HELPS PEPPER FIND MEDICINE BOTTLE FOR PEOPLE WITH MEMORY PROBLEMS?
This virtual reality headset is used to control the nursing robot and see what it sees.
What is META QUEST 3?
This Machine Learning brand/technique is used to train the Stretch3's tasks.
What is REINFORCEMENT LEARNING (RL)?
Robots that look like or move like animals.
What are BIO-INSPIRED ROBOTS?
In the WPI Innovation Studio, before grabbing any tool, you log into this website to "check it out" just like borrowing a library book for makers.
What is WEBCHECKOUT?
Project Space - This wheeled robot is used to teach students about navigation.
What is TURTLEBOT?
Project Space - This device uses a laser to get precise distance readings to objects.
What is LIDAR?