Ford Motor Company have developed a robot machine that combines a computer's eye for detail with human perceptions of quality through touch and feeling. The purpose of using the robot is to minimise costs for Ford as it will help to avoid numerous iterations of testing needed under actual human interaction of interiors.
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| Ford's Robot 'RUTH' |
The robot has been aptly named 'RUTH', which stands for Robotized Unit for Tactility & Haptics. RUTH utilizes a number of parameters including friction, force, softness, roughness and temperature to measure how the interior of the car would 'feel' to a human. RUTH is able to mimic most complex actions that a driver would perform with interiors of the car, for example - pushing buttons, turning knobs, adjusting air vents and feeling surfaces. Although RUTH has been in action for about 4 years now, the robot is only just being reflected in Ford's production models which include European versions of Ford's Mondeo, Galaxy, S-Max and C-Max.
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