Folks from University of Pennsylvania have achieved a great step when it comes to robotics. Engineers using the Willow Garage PR2 robot have manged to teach the PR2 robot to read.
The PR2 robot utilizes an onboard camera that is placed in its head, a special method to identify and separate texts, its also equipped with a Tesseract optical character recognition (OCR) software for words identification. As for this robot, its named Graspy because it has been developed in the University’s GRASP (General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception) lab, at the moment, it can recognize printed or handwritten text. In addition, it can even read the text aloud, but this option doesn’t work all the time. Could the PR2 be a be potential application for use for reading captchas in the future?
[via Ubergizmo]
Hmm… I think they should input the Miriam webster’s dictionary in it. The only problem now would be the slang words. I’d want to see more of it once it gets to identify sentences. I was about to ask if it can read the texts out loud. Apparently, it can but not at the moment.
What’s the use of this robot anyway? What future progresses can we get from it?