A robot can listen for the jingle of keys in a bag, just like we do VanoVasaio/Shutterstock
A robotic arm with an attached microphone has learned how to locate noisy objects tossed into a bag, grabbing a set of keys by listening for the telltale clinking sound and picking out a crinkly bag of crisps sight unseen.
鈥淭hat environment is basically like you reach down, you don’t know where the keys are, but then once you hear the sound of the keys you can kind of localise it,鈥 says at Stanford University in California. 鈥淎nd then by…
