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Robot, know thyself: New vision-based system teaches machines to understand their bodies
July 28, 2025

Neural Jacobian Fields, developed by MIT CSAIL researchers, can learn to control any robot from a single camera, without any other sensors.

This image shows 3D-printed crystalline lattice structures with air-filled channels, known as "fluidic sensors," embedded into the structures (the indents on the middle of lattices are the outlet holes of the sensors.) These air channels let the researchers measure how much force the lattices experience when they are compressed or flattened.

New programmable materials can sense their own movements
August 12, 2022

Engineers 3D print materials with networks of sensors directly incorporated.