(2 June 2016) A*STAR’s Institute for Infocomm Research is designing robots that can relieve librarians of many menial tasks, while enhancing searching and sorting of books. Their latest project is an autonomous robotic shelf scanning (AuRoSS) platform that can self-navigate through libraries at night, scanning RFID tags to produce reports on missing and out-of-sequence books.
Real-world trials at Singapore libraries revealed the AuRoSS robot’s potential—up to 99 per cent scanning accuracy was achieved, even with curved shelves.
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