Robot Watch: The Poop Scoop

Tired of coming home to mysterious poops all over your floor with no one to clean them up? Sick of frolicking in your backyard only to find your dog’s poop scattered ’round the lawn?

Scoop your troubles away with the brand new poop-scooping robot! Penn’s GRASP Lab, the makers of death-defying flying robots and robots that play soccer, introduces the newest in its line of haptic interface applications. Ben Cohen and his colleagues successfully programmed the PR2 robot into a deluxe waste removal agent capable of handling the most offensive of poops. Read the rest of this entry »