{"id":148947,"date":"2022-10-27T06:23:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T11:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/robots-that-can-feel-cloth-layers-may-one-day-help-with-laundry"},"modified":"2022-10-27T06:23:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T11:23:33","slug":"robots-that-can-feel-cloth-layers-may-one-day-help-with-laundry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/robots-that-can-feel-cloth-layers-may-one-day-help-with-laundry","title":{"rendered":"Robots that can feel cloth layers may one day help with laundry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n3ULPCZhK1Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>New research from Carnegie Mellon University\u2019s Robotics Institute can help robots feel layers of cloth rather than relying on computer vision tools to only see it. The work could allow robots to assist people with household tasks like folding laundry.<\/p>\n<p>Humans use their senses of sight and touch to grab a glass or pick up a piece of cloth. It is so routine that little thought goes into it. For robots, however, these tasks are extremely difficult. The amount of data gathered through touch is hard to quantify and the sense has been hard to simulate in robotics\u2014until recently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHumans look at something, we reach for it, then we use touch to make sure that we\u2019re in the right position to grab it,\u201d said David Held, an assistant professor in the School of Computer Science and head of the Robots Perceiving and Doing (R-Pad) Lab. \u201cA lot of the tactile sensing humans do is natural to us. We don\u2019t think that much about it, so we don\u2019t realize how valuable it is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research from Carnegie Mellon University\u2019s Robotics Institute can help robots feel layers of cloth rather than relying on computer vision tools to only see it. The work could allow robots to assist people with household tasks like folding laundry. Humans use their senses of sight and touch to grab a glass or pick up [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}