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Q&A: Warehouse robots that feel by sight

by MIT News By Kim Martineau | MIT Schwarzman College of Computing More than a decade ago, Ted Adelson set out to create tactile sensors for robots that would give them a sense of touch. He plans to build out the GelSight system with added capabilities to sense temperature and ...

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Q&A: Warehouse robots that feel by sight

Q&A: Warehouse robots that feel by sight

by MIT News By Kim Martineau | MIT Schwarzman College of Computing More than a decade ago, Ted Adelson set out to create tactile sensors for robots that would give them a sense of touch. He ...

Giving soft robots feeling

Giving soft robots feeling

In a pair of papers from MIT CSAIL, two teams enable better sense and perception for soft robotic grippers.

Giving soft robots senses

Giving soft robots senses

The new sensors let the gripper not only pick up objects as delicate as potato chips, but it also classifies them -- letting the robot better understand what it’s picking up, while also ...

Inside SynTouch, the Mad Lab Giving Robots the Power to Feel

Inside SynTouch, the Mad Lab Giving Robots the Power to Feel

Want robots that don’t crush our skulls? Well, we better give them a sense of touch.

Tactile robot finger at Columbia Engineering is the first without blind spots

Tactile robot finger at Columbia Engineering is the first without blind spots

Scientists at Columbia Engineering have used light and deep learning to manufacture a curved robot finger with a fine sense of touch.

A tactile robot finger with no blind spots

A tactile robot finger with no blind spots

Engineers demonstrate a robotic finger with a precise sense of touch over a complex surface

This Fingertip for Robots Uses Magnets to ‘Feel’ Things

This Fingertip for Robots Uses Magnets to ‘Feel’ Things

By sensing the subtle changes in the finger’s own magnetic field, this new technology could one day make for ultra-sensitive prosthetic hands. By MATT SIMON IMAGINE, IF YOU will, the home ...

One of Facebook’s first moves as Meta: Teaching robots to touch and feel

One of Facebook’s first moves as Meta: Teaching robots to touch and feel

Meta AI, previously Facebook AI Research, is working on touch sensors that can gather information about how objects feel in the real world.

Why Facebook (Or Meta) Is Making Tactile Sensors for Robots

Why Facebook (Or Meta) Is Making Tactile Sensors for Robots

Durable and affordable fingers and skin could help virtual agents understand their world

Finishing touch: How scientists are giving robots humanlike tactile senses

Finishing touch: How scientists are giving robots humanlike tactile senses

Giving robots sight and hearing is fairly straightforward these days, but equipping them with a robust sense of touch is far more difficult.

Developing artificial afferents for tactile sensing

Developing artificial afferents for tactile sensing

We speak to the author of two Interface studies about their work developing artificial afferents for tactile sensing using robotics.

Exodex Adam—A Reconfigurable Dexterous Haptic User Interface for the Whole Hand

Exodex Adam—A Reconfigurable Dexterous Haptic User Interface for the Whole Hand

Applications for dexterous robot teleoperation and immersive virtual reality are growing. Haptic user input devices need to allow the user to intuitively command and seamlessly “feel” the ...

Scientists make artificial skin for robots, taking us one step closer to a world of androids

Scientists make artificial skin for robots, taking us one step closer to a world of androids

Scientists from around the world are developing robotic skin that helps machines gain the sense of touch. It's estimated that robots will displace 20 million human workers by 2030.