Happy autonomous holidays!
Get a fir tree from the forest, drag it to the lab, decorate it festively and deliver gifts: this is how the Autonomous Systems Lab’s robots celebrate Christmas.
Once Robo-Rudolf and Robo-St. Nick and their team of robo-elves have delivered gifts and the quadrocopter-fairy has decorated the autonomously delivered Christmas tree from the forest, the cute creatures of ETH Zurich’s Autonomous Systems Lab can finally celebrate Christmas. And they’re sharing their joy with the world in their latest external page video. It wouldn’t be a surprise if they’d posted the video on YouTube autonomously, either. But what’s certain is that many researchers filled – sorry, programmed – their creatures with the spirit of Christmas.
For their latest Christmas greeting video, the roboticists (the research elves) took the capabilities of the lab robots to the limit to autonomously deliver a more or less traditional holiday greeting. Not even a short-circuit can prevent the emotional one-eyed Santa-Bot becoming teary-eyed at the end.