This shows how robots could learn complex, human-like skills from a single demonstration—opening doors to safer, more ...

Behind the intelligent leap of humanoid robots: Sensors become the core hardware, with a market size expected to reach 84.8 ...

Researchers at USC's Viterbi School of Engineering have developed a robot capable of identifying materials, thanks to a tactile sensor. The so-called BioTac sensor mimics the human finger, with ...

In order for robots to operate safely around humans, they need to see that people are approaching and they need to know when ...

A joint research team co-led by City University of Hong Kong (CityU) has developed a new soft tactile sensor with skin-comparable characteristics. A robotic gripper with the sensor mounted at the ...

Eight years ago, Ted Adelson's research group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) unveiled a new sensor technology, called GelSight, that uses physical contact ...

Tactile sensor gives robots new capabilities GelSight technology lets robots gauge objects' hardness and manipulate small tools Date: June 5, 2017 Source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

Tactile sensors provide robots with the ability to interact with humans and the environment with great accuracy, yet technical challenges remain for electronic-skin systems to reach human-level ...

Facebook announced on Monday that it has developed a suite of tactile technologies that will impart a sense of touch into robots.

They've incorporated it into an ultra-sensitive tactile sensor for robots. First of all, here's how MIT's basic GelSight technology works, as described in our previous article ...

Facebook detailed its efforts to overcome challenges in tactile sensing, which include developing new sensors and modeling techniques.

A robot's sensitivity to touch could be vastly improved by an array of polymer-based tactile sensors that has been combined with a robust signal-processing algorithm to classify surface textures ...