MIT is Putting Us One Step Closer to Robot Bartenders

MIT has developed a new type of planning algorithm for robots: a MacDec-POMDP planner. That stands for Decentralized Macro actions planner for Partially Observed Markov Decision Processes.

All you need to know is they're using it to create a robotic bartender.

If you're into the nerdy side of this, you can read more about it at IEEE.org.