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LAAS (Laboratoire d'Analyse et d'Architecture des Systèmes) is a research unit of the CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research) in the field of Information and Communication Science and Technology.

Autonomous Robotics is one its research directions: the study and design of autonomous machines integrating perception, action and reasoning capabilities.

Rackham is an autonomous interactive mobile robot. It is equipped with various sensors (cameras, a laser range finder, ultrasonic proximity sensors) and is able to map its environment and to navigate autonomously in presence of the public. Rackham detects humans visually and interacts with them. Visitors may ask it to guide them to a given demonstration using menus on a tactile screen, and Rackham addresses humans with an animated avatar and voice synthesis.

Related Project

European Project Cogniron, European FP6 IP project.

The overall objectives of this project are to study the perceptual, representational, reasoning and learning capabilities of embodied robots in human centered environments. The project will develop methods and technologies for the construction of such cognitive robots able to evolve and grow their capacities in close interaction with humans in an open-ended fashion.