Intel / CMU's HERB (Home Exploring Robot Butler) Gets a Dual-Arm Upgrade

July 1, 2010 by Travis Deyle
Intel / CMU HERB Robot Butler

FastCompany spotted a new version of HERB (Home Exploring Robot Butler) at the CMU Quality of Life Technology Center.  HERB is a joint effort between Intel Research's Personal Robotics Program and Carnegie Mellon University.  The new version sports two Barrett WAM arms on a Segway RMP mobile base and has a very distinctive rotating (instead of tilting) planar laser rangefinder.  The new HERB certainly has a unique design -- be sure to check out the photos and video below where HERB grasps objects from a table.

 

 

Intel / CMU HERB Robot Butler  Intel / CMU HERB Robot Butler

 

A video of HERB in operation: 

 

A quick comparison between the old HERB (left) that we saw plugging itself into wall outlets, and the new HERB (right).

Intel / CMU HERB Robot Butler  Intel / CMU HERB Robot Butler

 

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October 5, 2010
2:20 pm

A new video from the CMU Robotics YouTube channel:

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. During the video you can see how the arm is able to be manipulated by someone and then it resumes doing the task it was doing. Herb's computer vision - his view of the world in data point clouds - was on display too being projected for all to see.

—Travis Deyle

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