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MIT develops a motion and task planning system for home robots (techcrunch.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What do you think are the biggest limitations to robots in the home? Privacy concerns, limited utility, inability to overcome simple obstacles, price or something else?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I tried to build one, and the hardest thing was setting up route planning. But it was also way easier than it could've been, and if I'd wanted to, I could've solved my problem by buying more common, modern sensors.

The field, I think, is moving along really well. There's always things that could be easier, but I'm loathe to complain when so many people have made such great open source tools.

I was using ROS with a Kinect 1 and an old Roomba, running on a Jetson Nano, btw.