Estimating the pose of hand-held objects is a critical and challenging problem in robotics and computer vision. While leveraging multi-modal RGB and depth data is a promising solution, existing ...

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's inside. Researchers from MIT, Amazon Robotics, ...

An international team, led by researchers at the Champalimaud Foundation (CF), has shown—for the first time in a realistic ...

MIT engineers are getting in on the robotic ping pong game with a powerful, lightweight design that returns shots with ...

One of the biggest early successes of contemporary AI was the ImageNet challenge, a kind of antecedent to contemporary ...

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A new machine learning approach has enabled researchers to understand the role of neural cells including astrocytes in ...

The rise of e-commerce has reshaped the retail landscape, with millions of new products flooding the digital marketplace. Yet ...

Billions of years ago, in the frozen edges of the solar system, a violent impact shaped one of space’s oddest pairs. Instead ...

applied object recognition technology to track changes in brain cell structure and provide new insights into how the brain ...