Automated robot that scans library shelves using laser mapping and radio tags can ensure no book is misplaced again
(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.…