Whether strawberries, asparagus or apples: when it comes to harvesting, skilled workers are often in short supply. Many ...

With its new handheld scanner goSCOUT3D, Fraunhofer IOF (“IOF”) researchers have developed a mobile sensor, which they say “enables high-resolution 3D measurements of complex objects”. To further ...

They developed a technique that enables robots to use only internal sensors to learn about an object's weight, softness, or contents by picking it up and gently shaking it.

This Robot Can Pick Up Objects and Recognize What They Are The "pick-and-place" system uses a deep neural network to ensure that it can pick any item up without dropping it.

But a new robot, designed by researchers at UC Berkeley and Siemens and described in an upcoming paper, can learn how to grip new objects just by studying a database of 3D shapes.

The robot, a two-armed machine called HERB (the Home Exploring Robot Butler), uses color video, a Kinect depth camera and non-visual information to build digital images of objects, which for its ...

If each of those robots were to use both arms to examine new objects, she says, it would be possible for them to learn to grasp a million objects in 11 days. “By having robots share what they ...

Children can do lots of things that robots and computers have trouble with. Climbing stairs, for example, is a tough thing for a robot. Recognizing objects is another area where humans are generall… ...

With its new handheld scanner goSCOUT3D, Fraunhofer IOF (“IOF”) researchers have developed a mobile sensor, which they say “enables high-resolution 3D measurements of complex objects”. To further ...