Enhancing Robots' Senses of Touch By Giving them Human-Like Fingerprints
Researchers at the National University of Singapore are enhancing robots’ sense of touch by mimicking the ridged and contoured surfaces of human fingertips. Fingerprints, it…
View ArticlePR2 Robot Learns to Scoop Up Distasteful Matter
The roboticists at the University of Pennsylvania’s GRASP Lab have done some truly great things, from flying tricks with aerobatic quadcopters to programming their PR2 to read. And now this: PR2 as...
View ArticleVideo: Qbo Robot Learns to Recognize Itself in a Mirror
Qbo (pronounced "cue-bee-oh") is a newish robot designed by TheCorpora, which in addition to general cuteness boasts some impressive speech and object recognition abilities.
View ArticleVideo: Supermarket Checkout Scanner Uses Object Recognition Instead of Bar Codes
This Toshiba scanner, just demonstrated in Japan, knows what vegetables look like -- just hold up your daikon or mizuna to the camera at the cash register, and it tots up the…
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Terminator-Like Vision Could Help Robots Do Our Dishes
If the above gif looks familiar it’s probably because it looks eerily similar to this:This, of course, is how the T-800 Terminator sees and recognizes objects in the world upon arrival from the future...
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