The research team led by Masakazu Ohara, graduate student of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Toyohashi University of Technology (student in the Leading Program doctoral program); ...

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 ...

What used to take 15 seconds now takes less than 2: Thanks to new single-shot technology, the goROBOT3D system, developed by researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision ...

Picking up a glass or wiping a transparent surface is really confusing for most robots. The most common robot found in homes today is probably a robot vacuum, but in the future we could see robots in ...

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 ...

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; ...