February 22, 2013
HERB, the Home Exploring Robot Butler, was among the first campus celebrities to shake hands with CMU President-elect Subra Suresh and his family at a Feb. 21 welcome reception in Rangos Hall.
HERB is the research platform of the Personal Robotics Lab, part of the Quality of Life Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute. The two-armed, mobile robot is a testbed for algorithms, software and other technology that will enable robots to perform challenging manipulation tasks in places where people live and work.