Kitchen robots are a popular vision of ... Once trained, the color camera system was applied to transparent and shiny objects. Based on those images, along with whatever scant information a ...

Robots still struggle with materials that the human eye can easily detect, such as glass, shiny metal, or jet-black surfaces.

In order to see and then grasp objects, robots typically utilize ... three-dimensional shape of objects in color images, even if those objects are transparent or shiny. Additionally, although ...

Robots have got pretty good at picking up objects ... But put them in front of a transparent object, and the light will go straight through and scatter off reflective surfaces, making it tricky ...

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have used machine learning and color cameras to teach robots how to better grasp transparent and reflective objects . Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!

(Image: Hyunwoo Yuk/MIT Soft Active Materials Lab ... the gripper was strong and fast enough to close around the fish. "[The robot] is almost transparent, very hard to see," Zhao says. "When you ...

Engineers at MIT have fabricated transparent, gel-based robots that move when water is pumped in and out of them. The bots can perform a number of fast, forceful tasks, including kicking a ball ...