Finger sensor can "see what they are in contact with robots "

We saw improved by leaps and bounds (literally) lately robots, but what about something more specific, like a good sense of touch? View researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of North finger off a new version of the GelSight sensor installation shaped cube uses a camera and film sensitive rubber board 3 D objects they seize. To a new level of precision, and the team says, can lead to more autonomous robots that are better able to cope with their environment.


In the experimental group (as shown in the video above), a robot Baxter robots rethink uses sensors to capture an attachment of standard USB cable. At this time, sensor and GelSight attached to the robot hand is twofold Süsses small details, and specifically raised the USB logo embossed on one side of the sheet. It has a slave sensor housing rubber cube in the film, which covers one side. This layer is compatible with all the pressure is against, while light colored lights bouncing over bumps and hills that result. Camera then uses this data to build a 3D depth map of the object. Using what is known about the design of the USB connector, the system can then place the ingredients in sufficient detail to put into the adapter is plugged into the power sector below.


Although the sensor is not as accurate as before, repeating the largest GelSight technology, the team says the version of finger mounted about 100 times more sensitive than the human finger still watch.

SOURCE MIT News