The vision-free version of MIT’s Cheetah 3 robot can jump onto a 30-inch-high tabletop. (MIT via YouTube) Boston Dynamics’ scary-smart robots make use of sophisticated computer vision, but MIT ...

The objective of this paper is to present the model-based 3D object recognition and fetching by a 7-DoF robot with online obstacle avoidance for factory automation. The robot can fetch the random type ...