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Imagine a coffee cup sitting on a table. Now, imagine a book partially obscuring the cup. As humans, we still know what the coffee cup is even though we can't see all of it. But a robot might be ...

Have you ever found something so strange that even Google couldn’t save you? From odd metal tools buried in backyards to bizarre gadgets discovered in thrift stores, some mystery objects refuse to ...

Your phone’s camera isn’t just for selfies; it can also double as a visual search engine. Instead of snapping a photo of a strange plant, a cool pair of sneakers, or a random gadget and then trying to ...

Newly created soft-rigid robotic fingers incorporate powerful sensors along their entire length, enabling them to produce a robotic hand that could accurately identify objects after only one grasp.

In a recent study scheduled to be presented at the RoboSoft Conference, a team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have built a robotic hand capable of sensing touch ...

Kaitlin Gunther, a fourth-year psychology and computer science double major from Webster, N.Y., is trying to better understand how fish view the world. RIT will showcase a variety of research projects ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Inspired by the human finger, MIT researchers have developed a robotic hand that uses high-resolution touch sensing to accurately identify an object after grasping it just one time.