Robot Manipulation Challenge: Clean Up Dining Table, Load Dishwasher
From: IEEE Spectrum Tech Alert - 11/25/2009
By: Samuel Bouchard

Robots with nimble hands already help us assemble cars, harvest fruits, and
even disarm bombs. Now when will they be ready to assist us with another
life-changing task: loading a dishwasher? To find out, a group of roboticists
is organizing the Mobile Manipulation Challenge, to take place at the 2010
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Automaton talked to
Matei Ciocarlie, a researcher who is helping to organize the event. 

Read the entire article at:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/blog/robotics/robotics-software/automaton/mobile-manipulation-challenge

Links:
Mobile Manipulation Challenge
http://www.willowgarage.com/mmc10

Willow Garage
http://www.willowgarage.com/

Conference on Robotics and Automation
http://icra2010.grasp.upenn.edu/