Tea Serving Robots

From the swirling web browser of The Swirling Brain comes a link to a CNN article about Japanese tea serving robots. Japanese robotics researcher, still intent on producing robots that can care for the elderly, are exploring how well they can make robots perform common tasks such as serving tea and washing dishes. In this experiment, a Kawanda Industries biped humanoid robot poured the tea, which was then delivered to humans in another room by a second, wheeled robot. This work is being done by Tomomasa Sato of the Intelligent Cooperative Systems Lab at the University of Tokyo.