Ironing shirts and other clothing items is not a lot of fun, but someone has to do it. Wouldn’t it be nice to use robots to do the job? Yinxiao Li has shared a video showing how robots can complete this task. In a paper that has been accepted in ICRA 2016, Columbia University researchers cover a robotic ironing system that uses Kinect sensors to get the job done.
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Multi-Sensor Surface Analysis for Robotic Ironing --- ICRA2016
The robot is capable of wrinkle detection and motion planning. It probably is better at ironing than some of us humans. What do you think? Are you impressed?
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