MIT develops a way for robots to grasp and manipulate objects much faster – TechCrunch

Picking stuff up seems easy, right? It is – for humans with powerful brain computers that instantly and intuitively figure out everything needed to get the job done. But for robots, even advanced robots, the compute required is surprisingly complex, especially if you want the robot to not, you know, break the thing it's grabbing. MIT has developed a new way to speed up the planning involved in a robot grasping an object, making it "significantly" faster – reducing the total time from as much as ten or more minutes, to under a second. This could have big practical benefits to setting where robotics are already in use, including in industrial environments.