Researchers develop robotic arm that can catch fast moving objects

Researchers from the Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory (LASA) at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne have developed a robotic system that uses infrared cameras, motion analysis software, and set of six non-linear regression algorithms that enable a robotic arm to catch flying objects of various shapes in less than five hundredths of a second. As objects are thrown in the robot’s direction, the infrared cameras captured images which provided position and orientation data of the tracked object at 250 Hz. >>>Read more

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