Wednesday, 28 February 2018
MIT’s Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) today unveiled AutoSaw, a system for creating custom furniture with robot carpenters. Anyone who’s lost a thumb-wrestling match with a table saw can appreciate this one. AutoSaw uses a pair of youBots, a discontinued model from Kuka, and a modified Roomba to make customized flat-pack furniture – the kind you put together yourself with a screwdriver and a modicum of self-loathing. Users begin by designing their furniture in a basic computer assisted drawing (CAD) interface and the AI does the rest. The youBots measure the wood and place it in the path…
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