{"id":8512,"date":"2015-08-28T06:10:47","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T10:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=8512"},"modified":"2015-08-22T22:20:43","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T02:20:43","slug":"improving-robot-dexterity-mit-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=8512","title":{"rendered":"Improving Robot Dexterity &#8211; MIT News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIT engineers have devised a way to give more dexterity to simple robotic grippers using the environment as a helping hand. Their model predicts the force with which a robotic gripper must push against surrounding fixtures in order to adjust its grasp. (Learn more about the system:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"yt-uix-redirect-link\" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/mitne.ws\/1ONlwzt\" href=\"http:\/\/mitne.ws\/1ONlwzt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/mitne.ws\/1ONlwzt<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZiqC9emBk00\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Video produced and edited by Melanie Gonick\/MIT<br \/>\nRobotic footage and additional editing courtesy of Nikhil Chavan-Dafle and Alberto Rodriguez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT engineers have devised a way to give more dexterity to simple robotic grippers using the environment as a helping hand. Their model predicts the force with which a robotic gripper must push against surrounding fixtures in order to adjust its grasp. (Learn more about the system:\u00a0http:\/\/mitne.ws\/1ONlwzt) Video produced and edited by Melanie Gonick\/MIT Robotic footage and additional editing courtesy of Nikhil Chavan-Dafle and Alberto Rodriguez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[507],"class_list":["post-8512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","tag-mit-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8514,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8512\/revisions\/8514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}