Fold, repeat: This PR2 robot from Willow Garage in Menlo Park, CA, has been programmed to use twin high-resolution cameras to examine a towel before folding it. It started by pulling this towel from a disordered pile.
Credit: Jeremy Maitin-Shepard and Pieter Abbeel
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Automated Towel Folder
A robot learns to reliably manipulate flexible objects
Source: "Cloth Grasp Point Detection Based on Multiple-View Geometric Cues with Application to Robotic Towel Folding"
Jeremy Maitin-Shepard et al.
2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2010), May 3-8, 2010, Anchorage, AK
Results: For the first time, a robot can reliably sort, fold, and stack different-sized towels that it encounters in a disordered pile. Previous robots have had only limited success at folding towels, even when the towels were laid out in a particular orientation and the robots were programmed with their dimensions.
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