Engineers have found a way to significantly speed up the planning process required for a robot to adjust its grasp on an object by pushing that object against a stationary surface. Whereas traditional algorithms would require tens of minutes for planning out a sequence of motions, the new team’s approach shaves this planning process down to less than a second.
Giving robots a faster grasp: An algorithm speeds up the planning process robots use to adjust their grip on objects, for picking and sorting, or tool use
