Kitchen robots are a popular vision of the future, but if a robot of today tries to grasp a kitchen staple such as a clear measuring cup or a shiny knife, it likely won't be able to. Transparent and ...

(Nanowerk News) Kitchen robots are a popular vision of the future, but if a robot of today tries to grasp a kitchen staple such as a clear measuring cup or a shiny knife, it likely won't be able to.

The most common robot found in homes today is probably a robot vacuum, but in the future we could see robots in control of most household chores. They need to understand how to deal with transparent ...

Engineers have adapted a picosecond imaging technology to take pictures and video of transparent objects like cells and phenomena like shockwaves. A little over a year ago, Caltech's Lihong Wang ...

Apple has been granted a patent (number 11,346,940) that hints that the rumored “Apple Glasses” — an augmented reality/virtual reality head-mounted display — may have an ultrasonic sensor. In the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Perception of the manner in which objects may be grasped was examined in a series of experiments with adults and 10-month-old infants; ...