El-E: A laser-guided assistive robot (video)

El-E the Robot from Cressel Anderson on Vimeo

EL-E: a robot which chases around the dot made by a laser pointer, and picks up whatever it point at.

clipped from www.hsi.gatech.edu clipped from www.hsi.gatech.edu El-E: An Assistive Robot First, El-E is equipped with a laser pointer interface that detects when a user illuminates a location with an off-the-shelf green laser pointer and estimates its 3D position. This enables a user to unambiguously communicate a 3D location to the robot using a point-and-click style of interaction, which provides a direct way to tell the robot which object to manipulate or where to go.

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