WAM!
Vision and Touch Guided Robots
The Vision and Touch Guided Manipulation group at the MIT Artificial
Intelligence Lab conducts research in a wide variety of topics related to
the design of manipulators and end effectors, dextrous manipulation,
nonlinear and adaptive control methods, and vision guided manipulation.
They employ techniques from various fields including Mechanical Design,
Adaptive Control, Machine Learning, Approximation Theory, Numerical
Methods, and Computer Vision. The group is headed by Dr. Ken Salisbury
and Professor Jean-JacquesSlotine who along with graduate students Jesse
Hong and Akhil Madhani have developed a whole arm manipulator that can
catch and throw a ball! "....now playing left field for the Red Sox...".
Video sequence showing the WAM catching a ball
Jesse Hong and Akhil Madhani
Learn more about the WAM at the Vision and Touch Guided Minipulation Group website at the AI Lab at MIT.
