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Headshot photo Ted Adelson
MIT news article

Neuroscience professor and Science Hub investigator Ted Adelson explains how simulating the sense of touch with a camera can make robots smarter.

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Robotic arm squishes a block of play dough into an x shape
MIT news article

A new system lets robots manipulate soft, deformable material into various shapes from visual inputs, which could one day enable better home assistants.

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an example of the hand
MIT news article

MIT researchers have created an integrated design pipeline that enables a user with no specialized knowledge to quickly craft a customized 3D-printable robotic hand.

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robot preparing to grasp item
MIT news article

MIT researchers have developed a system that enables a robot to learn a new pick-and-place task based on only a handful of human examples. This could allow a human to reprogram a robot to grasp never-before-seen objects, presented in random poses, in about 15 minutes.