Meet the NAGBOT: Robot that can monitor household activity

The average person forgets to do three things around the house everyday. So instead of your roommate or spouse griping about the milk being left out, researches built a robot that learns your household activity patterns to send out a quiet reminder when you forget something. Using a Kinect sensor, Watch-Bot employs an unsupervised learning program to detect missed activities and a laser to point out the related object as a reminder. Watch-Bot consists of a Kinect v2 sensor, a pan/tilt camera mounted with a laser pointer, and a laptop. Footage of humans performing daily activities in kitchens and offices allowed the robot to establish a baseline of what type of behavior is normal in each other the environments.