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ITRI's Intelligent Vision-Based Robot to Play SCRABBLE® With North American SCRABBLE Champion Will Anderson at CES 2018
[January 08, 2018]

ITRI's Intelligent Vision-Based Robot to Play SCRABBLE® With North American SCRABBLE Champion Will Anderson at CES 2018


CES 2018- The Industrial Technology Research Institute (News - Alert) (ITRI), Taiwan's largest and one of the world's leading high-tech applied research institutions, today announced its robot powered by ITRI's Intelligent Vision System for Companion Robots will play SCRABBLE® with 2017 North American SCRABBLE Champion Will Anderson at CES (News - Alert) 2018. The casual games will occur between 3:00 and 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 9 at ITRI's booth Tech East, LVCC South Hall 2 - 25611. ITRI's Intelligent Vision System for Companion Robots is a CES 2018 Innovation Awards Honoree and one of nine innovative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies ITRI is showcasing at CES 2018. SCRABBLE is one of the many possible consumer and industrial applications of ITRI's Intelligent Vision System for Companion Robots.





 

WHAT:

Casual SCRABBLE games with a robot powered by ITRI's Intelligent Vision System for Companion Robots, a CES 2018 Innovation Awards Honoree, which integrates AI, 3D vision recognition, and eye-hand coordination technologies enabling robots to perform tasks and learn from experience.

 

WHO:

Will Anderson, who won the five-day 2017 North American SCRABBLE Championship held by the North American SCRABBLE Players Association

 

WHEN:

Tuesday, January 9, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
 

WHERE:

ITRI's booth: Tech East, LVCC South Hall 2 - 25611

 

CONTACT:

[email protected] or (415) 986-7212

 

Media interviews are available upon request.

A photo of ITRI's SCRABBLE-playing Intelligent Vision-Based Robot is available at ITRI's CES 2018 online press kit, here: http://www.tradeshownews.com/events/ces-2018/ITRI/

A video introducing ITRI's Intelligent Vision System for Companion Robots is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMWj8q8r2TY&feature=youtu.be

ITRI's 30-second video for CES 2018 is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbnXOilUY0Y.

SCRABBLE, the associated logo, the design of the associated SCRABBLE brand game board, and the distinctive letter tile designs are trademarks of Hasbro in the U.S. and Canada. The event described in this document is not associated with or endorsed by Hasbro.

Disclaimer: The CES Innovation Awards are based upon descriptive materials submitted to the judges. CTA did not verify the accuracy of any submission or of any claims made and did not test the item to which the award was given.


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