Applying his expertise in robotics and machine learning, Heni Ben Amor, an associate professor in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, part of the Fulton Schools, teamed earlier this year with Google DeepMind to develop a robot that can play ping pong. Now Ben Amor and his research collaborators have a new project called Rosey the Robot — named after of the robotic maid on the popular TV cartoon show “The Jetsons,” which first aired in the 1960s. The new Rosie is a prototype for advanced artificial intelligence, or AI, technology that could become increasing capable of cooperating with humans to ably perform household chores and possibly more complex tasks as further tech advances are made. See also a previous post on this page dated May 12 linking to related previous news articles.