MIT's Delivery AI Can Find Your Door Without a Map

Pizza-making robots are already here, and taking a pizza order is trivial for any half-decent chatbot. But if you're waiting for a robot to deliver your'za, you may be waiting for a while. It's not because autonomous navigation technology doesn't exist -- it's that the data set required to run it is too specific. Digital maps can lead a robot to your driveway, but there are no detailed directions from the curb to your door. Currently, robots rely on humans to manually map the environments in which they work.