Robot makes a cookie

Via NYTimes Bits* Blog. Yup. I have a robot that vacuums my floor, now there’s a robot that makes cookies. I’m sure there’s a LOLSEXISM joke in there somewhere, but whatever.

Mario Bollini and Daniela Rus of the Distributed Robotics Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have taken a PR2 robot, which is made by the robotics company Willow Garage, and programmed it to mix dough from scratch, make a giant cookie and then bake it in an oven.

* Something that bugs me: In NYTimes style, acronyms with fewer than five letters are capitalized, but in the name of their tech blog, which stands for “Business – Innovation – Technology – Society,” they only capitalize the first letter.

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