It’s harvest time in America’s major apple-producing states, including Washington, New York and Michigan. The Agriculture Department projects the U.S. crop this year will surpass 11 billion ...

Abstract: We present a simulation-assisted imitation learning framework for robot pick-and-place tasks. A digital twin of a Techman TM5-900 robot arm with an OnRobot RG6 gripper is deployed within ...

At Suffern High School, this year's goal for the FIRST ® Tech Challenge in December is to have the robot pick up balls and put them in a goal, automatically, and with human intervention. But first, ...

Abstract: This work proposes a highly parallelized optimization scheme to simultaneously optimize the robot base and tool center point (TCP) placement within a robotic work cell for a sequence of pick ...

A Harvard team has demonstrated that robots can be designed to react to their environment and perform tasks by programming intelligence into their structure. They created a robot capable of ...