To effectively tackle a variety of real-world tasks, robots should be able to reliably grasp objects of different shapes, textures and sizes, without dropping them in undesired locations. Conventional ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA – A human clearing junk out of an attic can often guess the contents of a box simply by picking it up and giving it a shake, without the need to see what’s inside. Researchers from MIT, ...

Mobile robot localization and odometry calibration constitute the backbone of autonomous navigation in ground-based robotic systems. Localization denotes the process by which a robot determines its ...

Making machine perception reliable enough for real deployment requires more than better AI; it requires properly calibrated ...