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Feeling of a touch for robots through artificial intelligence and contact area patterns

06.06.2017 tribonet 1,634 Views

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 with an object to provide a remarkably detailed […]

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