'BeerBots' Can Fetch Booze For People Too Lazy To Get Up

We all know the struggle: You're vegging out on the couch, eyes on your favorite Netflix show, hand tight around a half-empty craft brew. The last thing you want to do is get up and get yourself another beer. Now imagine you can get a robot to fetch you a beer while you stay comfortably seated on the couch. That's exactly the idea behind BeerBots, a team of robots developed by researchers at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Tec...