{"id":196122,"date":"2024-09-13T05:24:19","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T10:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/combining-existing-sensors-with-machine-learning-algorithms-improves-robots-intrinsic-sense-of-touch"},"modified":"2024-09-13T05:24:19","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T10:24:19","slug":"combining-existing-sensors-with-machine-learning-algorithms-improves-robots-intrinsic-sense-of-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/combining-existing-sensors-with-machine-learning-algorithms-improves-robots-intrinsic-sense-of-touch","title":{"rendered":"Combining existing sensors with machine learning algorithms improves robots\u2019 intrinsic sense of touch"},"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\/VpEu8Wm0zqg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A team of roboticists at the German Aerospace Center\u2019s Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics finds that combining traditional internal force-torque sensors with machine-learning algorithms can give robots a new way to sense touch.<\/p>\n<p>In their study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/scirobotics.adn4008\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i><i>Science Robotics<\/i>,<\/i> the group took an entirely new approach to give robots a <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/sense+of+touch\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">sense of touch<\/a> that does not involve artificial skin.<\/p>\n<p>For living creatures, touch is a two-way street; when you touch something, you feel its texture, temperature and other features. But you can also be touched, as when someone or something else comes in contact with a part of your body. In this new study, the research team found a way to emulate the latter type of touch in a robot by combining internal force-torque sensors with a machine-learning algorithm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of roboticists at the German Aerospace Center\u2019s Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics finds that combining traditional internal force-torque sensors with machine-learning algorithms can give robots a new way to sense touch. In their study published in the journal Science Robotics, the group took an entirely new approach to give robots a sense of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196122","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}