Robot "HERB 2.0"

Herb is a robot from the Intel Personal Robotics Lab and a research platform for Carnegie Mellon's Quality of Life Technology Research Center.

During Intel Pittsburgh's 2010 open house, Herb greeted guests by demonstrating his abilities to pick up different bottles and cans, travel while avoiding obstacles, offer the object to someone and then put it back or in a recycle bin. The behavior for this demo was developed and performed using the Fawkes Behavior Engine, ported to ROS during an internship of Tim Niemueller at the Personal Robotics Lab in the summer 2010. It instructs and monitors the manipulation planning, perception, and motion components developed in the lab.