{"id":167180,"date":"2023-07-09T04:24:06","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T09:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/mit-develops-a-motion-and-task-planning-system-for-home-robots"},"modified":"2023-07-09T04:24:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T09:24:06","slug":"mit-develops-a-motion-and-task-planning-system-for-home-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/mit-develops-a-motion-and-task-planning-system-for-home-robots","title":{"rendered":"MIT develops a motion and task planning system for home robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-develops-a-motion-and-task-planning-system-for-home-robots.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why aren\u2019t there more robots in homes? This a surprising complex question \u2014 and our homes are surprisingly complex places. A big part of the reason autonomous systems are thriving on warehouse and factory floors first is the relative ease of navigating a structured environment. Sure, most systems still require a space be mapped prior to getting to work, but once that\u2019s in place there tends to be little in the way of variation.<\/p>\n<p>Homes, on the other hand, are kind of a nightmare. Not only do they vary dramatically from unit to unit, they\u2019re full of unfriendly obstacles and tend to be fairly dynamic, as furniture is moved around or things are left on the floor. Vacuums are the most prevalent robots in the home, and they\u2019re still being refined after decades on the market.<\/p>\n<p>This week, researchers at MIT CSAIL are showcasing <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2211.01576\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PIGINet<\/a> (Plans, Images, Goal, and Initial facts), which is designed to bring task and motion planning to home robotic systems. The neural network is designed to help streamline their ability to create plans of action in different environments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why aren\u2019t there more robots in homes? This a surprising complex question \u2014 and our homes are surprisingly complex places. A big part of the reason autonomous systems are thriving on warehouse and factory floors first is the relative ease of navigating a structured environment. Sure, most systems still require a space be mapped prior [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}