A SimPLE Way to Teach Robots to Pick and Place

MIT MechE researchers introduce an approach — dubbed SimPLE (Simulation to Pick Localize and placE) — that teaches robots to pick, regrasp, and place objects using the object’s computer-aided design model. Watch this video to learn more.

“In this work we show that it is possible to achieve the levels of positional accuracy that are required for many industrial pick and place tasks without any other specialization,” says MIT visiting scientist, Alberto Rodriguez .