CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Inspired by the human finger, MIT researchers have developed a robotic hand that uses high-resolution touch sensing to accurately identify an object after grasping it just one time.

Imagine a coffee cup sitting on a table. Now, imagine a book partially obscuring the cup. As humans, we still know what the coffee cup is even though we can't see all of it. But a robot might be ...

A human clearing junk out of an attic can often guess the contents of a box simply by picking it up and giving it a shake, without the need to see what's inside. Researchers from MIT, Amazon Robotics, ...

While it excels at identifying objects, a task called semantic classification, it may struggle to recognize objects in new poses. This weakness quickly becomes a problem in situations like autonomous ...

(Nanowerk News) Robotic vision has come a long way, reaching a level of sophistication with applications in complex and demanding tasks, such as autonomous driving and object manipulation. However, it ...

Meta Platforms Inc. today is expanding its suite of open-source Segment Anything computer vision models with the release of SAM 3 and SAM 3D, introducing enhanced object recognition and ...

Bing has significantly enhanced its search capabilities with the introduction of Bing Visual Search, a powerful tool that allows users to identify and gather information about specific objects within ...

Is the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base playing a role in helping U.S. and Canadian governments identify the unknown “objects” discovered in North ...

Upload astronomical images to Astrometry.net to identify objects. Use SIMBAD to find object properties and links to other databases. Explore Aladin to visualize and investigate surrounding objects.

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Project Know How can identify and authenticate who a video or image belongs to — even if it’s been manipulated or ...

There are so many exciting iPhone tricks to discover once you start getting comfortable with Apple's handset. And most of them are built into the operating system, so you don't have to download an app ...

Newly created soft-rigid robotic fingers incorporate powerful sensors along their entire length, enabling them to produce a robotic hand that could accurately identify objects after only one grasp.