Brown computer scientists have built a robot that can follow nonverbal commands from a person in a variety of environments -- indoors as well as outside -- all without having to adjust for variations in lighting.

Science Daily recently featured a piece on robotics research at Brown. The robotics group has demonstrated how a robot can follow nonverbal commands from a person in a variety of environments — indoors as well as outside — all without adjusting for lighting. According to the team’s leader, Chad Jenkins, “We have created a novel system where the robot will follow you at a precise distance, where ...