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You are here: Home / Technology / CMU Robot Tackles An Important Task

CMU Robot Tackles An Important Task

March 13, 2013 Lindsay

English: a Oreo cookie broken in half with a s...

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.

Here are a whole bunch of articles (with some humous titles) about HERB and oreo cookies  …
  • 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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Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: Carnegie Mellon, Carnegie Mellon University, HERB, Oreo, Oreo Cookie, Personal robotics lab

About Lindsay

Lindsay has been writing about Pittsburgh since 2005. She likes pretzels from the Pretzel Shop on Carson St., used book stores, her rollerblades and she hopes to learn to skateboard someday soon.

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