National Recovery Technologies (NRT), Nashville, Tennessee, has added the ColorPlus- R to the company’s product offering. Similar to the ColorPlus, the ColorPlus-R uses an image processing system to ...

PITTSBURGH--Kitchen robots are a popular vision of the future, but if a robot of today tries to grasp a kitchen staple such as a clear measuring cup or a shiny knife, it likely won't be able to.

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have been able to teach robots to pick up transparent or reflective objects. This has been a challenge for robots in the past, and the way researchers have ...

While this system works well enough on relatively dull opaque objects, it has problems with transparent items that much of the light passes through, or shiny objects that scatter the reflected light.

HEAPGrasp performs 3D measurement of objects using only their silhouettes, avoiding reliance on optical properties, significantly improving the grasping success rate of robots for transparent and ...

(Nanowerk News) Kitchen robots are a popular vision of the future, but if a robot of today tries to grasp a kitchen staple such as a clear measuring cup or a shiny knife, it likely won't be able to.