[Tyler]

Tech Time Warp of the Week: SAM the Intelligent Robot, 1989
20 December 2013, 12:00 am

Amazon is now running live robots inside its distribution centers, drones that rapidly shuttle merchandise across these massive warehouses so that the world's largest retailer can ship you all those holiday gifts without delay. These orange 'bots know exactly where they're going, and they know exactly what objects they need to grab. WiredLink.

Source: AI in the News

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[Art]

Sam is a "Real world", 3D version of Terry Winograd's SHRDLU program written at MIT between 1968-1970.
It was a virtual (on monitor) program that could manipulate various objects by interaction between human and machine and it knew where each object was and whether or not one object could be placed on top of another object. Pretty cool for its time!

Pretty soon, these robots will be serving us food and drink at local pubs! Just don't argue with them! You don't know how strong those grippers are!!

[Freddy]

I've come across SHRDLU a few times in my wanderings, I agree that for it's time it was a nice thing. Here's more about that :

http://hci.stanford.edu/~winograd/shrdlu/

The dialog between machine and user is rather impressive I thought.