{"id":213560,"date":"2025-05-08T13:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T18:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/system-lets-robots-identify-an-objects-properties-through-handling"},"modified":"2025-05-08T13:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T18:04:08","slug":"system-lets-robots-identify-an-objects-properties-through-handling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/system-lets-robots-identify-an-objects-properties-through-handling","title":{"rendered":"System lets robots identify an object\u2019s properties through handling"},"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\/prexg_N3NSY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s inside. Researchers from MIT, Amazon Robotics, and the University of British Columbia have taught robots to do something similar.<\/p>\n<p>They developed a technique that enables robots to use only internal sensors to learn about an object\u2019s weight, softness, or contents by picking it up and gently shaking it. With their method, which does not require external measurement tools or cameras, the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/robot\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">robot<\/a> can accurately guess parameters like an object\u2019s mass in a matter of seconds.<\/p>\n<p>This low-cost technique could be especially useful in applications where cameras might be less effective, such as sorting objects in a dark basement or clearing rubble inside a building that partially collapsed after an earthquake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s inside. Researchers from MIT, Amazon Robotics, and the University of British Columbia have taught robots to do something similar. They developed a technique [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213560","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}