• Inverse, Friday, December 2, 2016 9:53 AM

For robots, the ideal environment is one that’s orderly and predictable. Unfortunately for robots, the world is anything but. That means robots of all sorts, from autonomous cars to little Roombas, need a way to navigate dynamic landscapes — without crashing into everything. A new system, developed by PAL Robotics in Spain, offers another possible solution to this problem. Its StockBot, a robot designed to take on the tedious task of retail inventory, can find its way around thanks to radio beacons set up around the room. Those beacons communicate with the robot, and the robot uses the distance between it and the beacons to determine its location.

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