There also exist other, secondary objectives for selecting a particular ordering, as, for example, conservation of space or economy of effort in fetching objects.
These animals fetch objects for quadriplegics who hold laser pointers in their mouths and shine them on items they want retrieved.
Guided by the laser pointer, though, El-E can fetch objects as varied as towels, wallets or coffee mugs with no need for elaborate computer modeling.
PAGE A14 New Trick for an Old Dog Rico, a 9-year-old border collie, can fetch objects by name -- even names he has never heard before.
Through the game it can be given commands, like go and stay, and these can be contextualised depending on the environment – the canine helper can, for example, be sent to fetch objects.
Some of the technology in the home is designed to help users fetch objects, some is made to remind them to take their medicine, some of it is designed to remind a person exactly who is standing beside them.
Examples are the interpretation of activities a human executes when handling objects or fetching objects with a companion robot.
A service robot need to be able to approach human as well as fetching objects or them or picking or putting objects according to command, without the user having to dealt into too much detail of how it is done.
The experiment was designed to explore dog's imitative abilities, not to measure how long Philip's memory lasted; but his owner used Philip's skill to teach him how to do new, useful behaviors, such as fetching objects or putting things away.
This is not surprising since they are trained to fetch objects by name.
