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 ...

Picking up a glass or wiping a transparent surface is really confusing for most robots. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions ...

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; ...