Giving robots a faster grasp

ScienceDaily
Oct 17, 2019, 12:19 pm116 pts
Engineers have found a way to significantly speed up the planning process required for a robot to adjust its grasp on an object by pushing that object against a stationary surface. Whereas traditional algorithms would require tens of minutes for planning out a sequence of motions, the new team's approach shaves…

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