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California hotel hires robot butlers to provide room service (video)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you plan to stay in Cupertino’s high-tech Aloft Hotel in the near future, don’t be surprised

if you open your door to a 3-foot-tall robot carrying extra towels or breakfast. See, it’s the

Starwood property’s new butler (officially called A.L.O. Botlr, which is short for “robot butler”,

of course) programmed to assist the hotel’s concierge in catering to your requests.[…]

Vivid on-line videos demonstrate Superbot progress
Vivid on-line videos demonstrate Superbot progress
Credit: USC Information Sciences Institute
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Wei-Min Shen of the University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute recently reported to NASA significant progress in developing ‘SuperBot,’ identical modular units that plug into each other to create robots that can stand, crawl, wiggle and even roll. He illustrated his comments with striking video of the system in action, video now posted on line.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBfyAR77ceI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfT0hbewv-4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sCrQnnEGuA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOX6W2kFiEc