The goal of the Open Mind Indoor Common Sense project is to make indoor mobile robots that work in environments like homes and offices more intelligent. We want such robots to have commonsense as well as recognize objects and indoor scenes.

What commonsense knowledge would we expect such a helper robot to possess? Examples of indoor commonsense includes knowledge like coffee is made in a coffee maker which is in a kitchen; to find out if it is raining one needs to look out of an open window; master bedroom usually has a attached bath; and so on. We will be collecting indoor commonsense knowledge in the form of template and freeform sentences.