Robots intended for complex natural environments face a familiar problem: rigid bodies and fixed-color surfaces make them ...

To effectively tackle a variety of real-world tasks, robots should be able to reliably grasp objects of different shapes, textures and sizes, without dropping them in undesired locations. Conventional ...

Kitchen robots are a popular vision of the future, but if a robot of today tries to grasp a kitchen staple such as a clear measuring cup or a shiny knife, it likely won't be able to. Transparent and ...

Picking up a simple object is intuitive for a human, but it's much trickier for a robot. Machines directed by artificial intelligence have historically found it very difficult to navigate awkwardly or ...

Robots are now regularly used in applications such as picking purchased items from shipping warehouses … but most of them still can't see through walls. That said, a new bot is essentially able to do ...

Computer vision tech helps robots get a grasp on transparent objects By Ben Coxworth July 15, 2020 A Sawyer robot utilizes the technology to ascertain the three-dimensional shape of transparent ...

(Nanowerk News) If you’ve ever played the claw game at an arcade, you know how hard it is to grab and hold onto objects using robotics grippers. Imagine how much more nerve-wracking that game would be ...

RF Grasp is a picking robot that combines vision with radio frequency (RF) sensing to find and grasps objects, even if they're hidden from view. The technology could aid fulfillment in e-commerce ...

Scientists at Tarim University of China have proposed a way to address the challenging problem of pose recognition for photovoltaic panel cleaning robots. Their novel solution is based on a low power ...

(Nanowerk News) Kitchen robots are a popular vision of the future, but if a robot of today tries to grasp a kitchen staple such as a clear measuring cup or a shiny knife, it likely won't be able to.

In recent years, robots have gained artificial vision, touch, and even smell. "Researchers have been giving robots human-like perception," says MIT Associate Professor Fadel Adib. In a new paper, Adib ...