MIT's Latest Robotic Innovations
TurboTrack System Dramatically Improves Robot Accuracy and Speed Source: MIT Media Lab Uses RFID Tags This latest robotic breakthrough at the MIT Media Lab is expected to enable collaborative drones and very significant improvements in robotic manufacturing. The TurboTrack system relies on RFID tags to help robots track objects, including moving objects, with unprecedented precision. RFID stands for radio frequency identification tags. They cost only 3 cents and that makes this new MIT system very scalable for large scale use. RFID The MIT team says the system could replace computer vision in situations where there is no line of sight. Computer vision is limited by what it can see. Radio frequency signals don't have those restrictions. They can identify objects through walls, clutter and without visualization. With the new MIT system, the RFID tags are placed on selected objects. A reader sends a wireless signal that re...