Baxter - Laundry Assistant

December 15, 2018

This project was completed by me and a group of four other classmates for our Embedded Systems in Robotics course at Northwestern. This class strongly focused on the use of ROS in robotic applications. If you would like to read more about this project, please find its GitHub repository here

In this project, Baxter was programmed to locate a large detergent bottle, grasp the bottle’s lid, unscrew the lid, and finally remove the bottle lid. As a stretch goal, we also programmed Baxter to replace the lid on the bottle. The following gifs show this package in action:

  • Baxter opening the detergent bottle

baxter helping with laundry

  • Baxter replacing the bottle lid

baxter cleaning up

  • Baxter tightening the bottle lid

baxter closing that lid