How can humanoid and AI robotics help in everyday households?
UBTECH’s goal is to answer that. Carnegie Mellon University and UBTECH Robotics hosted their third annual humanoid workshop with the RI Summer Scholars. UBTECH Robotics is a leader in producing service robots. They have made great strides in achieving their mission with innovations such as Walker, a full-service humanoid robot. This exciting mission entails placing a helpful, intelligent robot in every home in hopes of making everyday life easier, more enjoyable, and efficient by performing everyday tasks. As part of their mission, their commercial products showcase a line of small humanoid robots with an easy-to-use, sleek interface that can seamlessly be used for hands-on K-12 learning and outreach.
In this three-day workshop, scholars gained hands-on experience using ROS, Raspberry Pi’s bluetooth capabilities, and motion controls in addition to practicing teamwork, communication, and collaboration by using UBTECH’s Yanshee humanoid robots. Scholars learned about Robotics Operating System (ROS) in a one day lesson, then participated in a two day technical challenge. Scholars worked in teams of six to move stuffed animals using a Yanshee robot operated by a PlayStation controller. Teams were given ten minutes to move as many animals to safety as possible. Each member of the winning team received a Jimu educational robot. After the competition, the top two scoring teams gave a public demo of the challenge to the RI community. We would like to thank the UBTECH team for continued collaboration and especially Ziqi Guo, Project Manager (RI MS-RT ‘16), Anny Wang, Software Development Manager, and Cygnus Yang, Senior Software Engineer for sharing their expertise and amazing technologies with the scholars.
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