Enables 3D analysis of objects; scanner has been connected to Boston Dynamics “robot dog”. Combined robot dog and 3D scanner makes measuring more agile and flexible. With its new handheld scanner ...

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, ...

A new imaging technique developed by MIT researchers could enable quality-control robots in a warehouse to peer through a cardboard shipping box and see that the handle of a mug buried under packing ...

Imagine a coffee cup sitting on a table. Now, imagine a book partially obscuring the cup. As humans, we still know what the coffee cup is even though we can't see all of it. But a robot might be ...

A new portable device combines laser scanning technology with cameras to create precise 3D images in colour. It could be used for everything from infrastructure inspection to construction to robot ...