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Integrated Multimodal Sensing and Learning System could give Robots New Capabilities

A new multi-modal sensing and learning platform that could enhance robot manipulation
Soft robot fingers equipped with tactile sensors grasping an egg. The bottom-right images show the tactile sensing results. Credit: Binghao Huang.

To assist humans with household chores and other everyday manual tasks, robots should be able to effectively manipulate objects that vary in composition, shape and size. The manipulation skills of robots have improved significantly over the past few years, in part due to the development of increasingly sophisticated cameras and tactile sensors.

Researchers at Columbia University have developed a new system that simultaneously captures both visual and tactile information...

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