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)