GelSight, GelSight, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

We give an overview of GelSight and how it can be used to visualize and measure surfaces. The details of this work are described in our SIGGRAPH 2011 paper.

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Researchers at MIT and Northeastern University have equipped a robot with a novel tactile sensor that lets it grasp a USB cable and insert it into a USB port.
Learn more about the sensor:
"Fingertip sensor gives robot unprecedented dexterity"

Equipped with a novel optical sensor, a robot grasps a USB plug and inserts it into a USB port.

by Larry Hardesty
September 19, 2014

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