Perera

CoBot is a service mobile robot that has been continuously deployed for extended periods of time in a multi-floor office-style building. While moving in the building CoBot, is able to perform multiple tasks for its users; the robot is able to autonomously navigate to any of the rooms in the building, to deliver objects and messages and to escort visitors to their destination. While apparently very different, all the tasks CoBot is able to perform require the robot to move from one location to another. In our effort to make CoBot increasingly available to users in the building, we recently enabled it to understand spoken commands, an approach for Learning and using task-relevant Knowledge from human-robot Dialog and access to the Web.