Artificial Fingerprints Help Robots Distinguish Shapes - Technology Review

Artificial Fingerprints Help Robots Distinguish Shapes - Technology Review: The optimization of hardness is a successful proof-of-principle example, which opens the way for a novel computational technique. “A new era in material design and discovery is about to begin,” said Prof. Oganov. “New materials with desired properties will be routinely discovered using supercomputers, instead of the expensive trial-and-error method that is used today.”