Function-Based Object Recognition

Is this a chair?
The only way to tell is to test it out.

In this scene you see a block chair,
a large robot with a rectangular block weight
- poised ready to place the weight on the seat
to test if the chair can support a person.
(Scenes displayed were generated using ThingWorld, MIT.)

Interaction to test functionality of the block chair structure.

Isolated view of block chair with weight placed on seat.

(If your system suppots java,
Java applet with 10 frames follows.
If not, you are missing a great demo.)

Guess it is not a chair!

Generic Recognition Using Form and Function

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