ButlerBot: The Robotic Butler

ButlerBot is a robotic butler created to cater to people’s questions at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2003 conference and to escort people to desired destinations. The three main areas of research focused on in ButlerBot, the Stony Brook Robot Design Team’s new robot created for the American Association of Artificial Intelligence's (AAAI) Robot Host competition, are navigation, computer vision and data server / human interaction. ButlerBot was the second place winner at the AAAI 2003 Robot Host competition.