CAMBRIDGE, MA—Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a way for robots to home in on moving objects with unprecedented speed and accuracy. The RFID-based system could enable greater collaboration and precision by robots working on assembly lines.
Robots using the system can locate tagged objects within 8 milliseconds, on average, and with an error of less than a centimeter. The TurboTrack system uses radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags to track objects.