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System lets robots identify an object's properties through handling
May 08, 2025
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 8 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news:

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System lets robots identify an object's properties through handling

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, and the University of British Columbia have taught robots to do somethin . . .

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