At Georgia Tech, assistant professor Charlie Kemp has been developing a robotic dog of sorts.
This robot named El-E (pronounced “Ellie”), is designed to do everything a service dog would do like open doors, open cabinets and fetch objects.
It takes over two years and $17,000 to properly train a service dog. The waiting list for these dogs is so long it can take up to 5 years to actually get one.
Kemp and his team studied over 71 commands used with service dogs, but have only put 10 into El-E so far. El-E can be controlled with voice commands or a laser.
Kemp hopes to see this technology in homes in about within 10 years.
Pretty cool. Hey Spot, fetch me a beer.
Check out a this press release with a video from Georgia Tech.
See our previous post about El-E here.
Link via (Statesman)