{"id":236035,"date":"2026-04-27T22:32:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T03:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/bananas-cups-and-peelers-robots-learn-how-to-handle-curved-objects-like-fruits-and-tools"},"modified":"2026-04-27T22:32:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T03:32:48","slug":"bananas-cups-and-peelers-robots-learn-how-to-handle-curved-objects-like-fruits-and-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/bananas-cups-and-peelers-robots-learn-how-to-handle-curved-objects-like-fruits-and-tools","title":{"rendered":"Bananas, cups and peelers: Robots learn how to handle curved objects like fruits and tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bananas-cups-and-peelers-robots-learn-how-to-handle-curved-objects-like-fruits-and-tools2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It does not take much to confuse some robots. A machine might be great at handling a simple object like a box, yet when it tries to work with a more irregular shape like a banana, it often fails.<\/p>\n<p>But help is at hand. Researchers from the Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne (EPFL) and Idiap Research Institute have developed a new approach that lets robots more reliably manipulate a variety of different shapes by teaching them to follow the unique geometry of any object they encounter.<\/p>\n<p>Their work is detailed in a paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/scirobotics.aea1762\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Science Robotics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It does not take much to confuse some robots. A machine might be great at handling a simple object like a box, yet when it tries to work with a more irregular shape like a banana, it often fails. But help is at hand. Researchers from the Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne (EPFL) and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236035","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}