Robots Can Pick Up Any Object After Inspecting It

  • Magazine Article
  • TBMG-35425
Published November 01, 2019 by Tech Briefs Media Group in United States
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For decades, robots in controlled environments like assembly lines have been able to pick up the same object over and over again. More recently, breakthroughs in computer vision have enabled robots to make basic distinctions between objects. Even then, though, the systems don’t truly understand objects’ shapes, so there’s little the robots can do after a quick pickup.