Interested in robots that are entire rooms? If you’ve answered “yes” take a look at the press release at the web address noted below. Highlights of the release: “Supported by a new three-year, $600,000 National Science Foundation grant and an industry partner, Cornell researchers and collaborators are working on what they say is a next frontier in domestic human-machine interaction, a new category of space-making robots that people will inhabit. Keith Evan Green, director of the Architectural Robotics Lab, calls them ‘robot rooms': reconfigurable, intelligent environments that will surround and support people occupying small spaces, from high-rise studios and hospital rooms to self-driving vehicles and spacecraft. ‘We’re working on a room of multiple robot surfaces that make one room, many rooms,’ said Green. . . . ‘But we can also create a space that transports you to another place psychologically, a portal to somewhere else. . . . Futuristic as it sounds, the work is driven by current population and lifestyle trends, some accelerated by the pandemic.”
“Space-Making ‘Robot Rooms’ Promise Practicality, Escape.” 2022. Press release, Cornell University, https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2022/11/space-making-robot-rooms-promise-practicality-escape