CMU Robot Tackles An Important Task

March 13, 2013 · by Lindsay · in technology

Meet HERB (Home Exploring Robotic Butler) who was developed at Carnegie Mellon’s Personal Robotics Lab.

HERB has finally tackled an important and difficult problem – how to separate an Oreo Cookie.

Thanks to Chris Briem @ NullSpace for sharing this video.

Sure, Give That Robot A Knife: Three More Oreo Separator Machines (uproxx.com)
HERB the robot butler takes part in Oreo cookie challenge (gizmag.com)
Carnegie Mellon’s HERB Masters Critical Oreo Separation Task (33rdsquare.com)
HERB the Robot Separates Oreo Cookie Before Turning on His Creators (adweek.com)
The Latest Oreo Separating Machine is Actually a Very Polite Robot Named HERB (geekosystem.com)
The Oreo Splitting Wars Escalate with Carnegie Mellon’s Brilliant Bot (gizmodo.com)
Knife-wielding robot HERB separates Oreo cookies (news.cnet.com)
Wondrous Oreo icing-removing machine uses an axe to de-cremify (boingboing.net)
HERB Learns to Separate Oreos, Probably Thinks Humans are Crazy (spectrum.ieee.org)
Portland man’s machine cuts creme from Oreo cookies (nwcn.com)

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