New RFID technology helps robots find household objects | Georgia Tech

by Sabine Hauert

22 September 2014

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Mobile robots could be much more useful in homes, if they could locate people, places and objects. Today’s robots usually see the world with cameras and lasers, which have difficulty reliably recognizing things and can miss objects that are hidden in clutter. A complementary way robots can “sense” what is around them is through the use of small ultra-high frequency radio-frequency identification (UHF RFID) tags.

Source: www.news.gatech.edu

Sabine Hauert is President of Robohub and Associate Professor at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory

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