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    Robot Overcomes Uncertainty to Retrieve Buried Objects

    June 30, 2022, Categories  Physics, Technology/Electronics

    the team of researchers with their project
    Caption:Fadel Adib, associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and director of the Signal Kinetics group in the MIT Media Lab (far left) with (from left to right) Tara Boroushaki, Nazish Naeem, and Laura Dodds, research assistants in the Signal Kinetics group.
    Credits:Image: James Day, MIT Media Lab

    FuseBot is a new robotic system that fuses visual information and radio-frequency signals to efficiently find hidden items buried under a pile of objects, whether or not the targeted item has an RFID tag.

    For humans, finding a lost wallet buried under a pile of items is pretty straightforward — we simply remove things from the pile until we find the wallet...

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