A research team led by Professor Tao Kai from the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering of Northwestern Polytechnical University has successfully developed a fully transparent, ...

A team of engineers and marine biologists at the University of California in the US have made a foot-long virtually transparent eel-like robot that uses artificial muscles filled with water to propel ...

An innovative, eel larvae-like robot developed by engineers and a marine biologist at the University of California can swim silently in salt water without an electric motor. Instead, the robot uses ...

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 ...

Robots still struggle with materials that the human eye can easily detect, such as glass, shiny metal, or jet-black surfaces. These materials don’t reflect light in predictable ways, making them hard ...

The show floor at CES 2024 in Las Vegas is officially open! To say there’s a lot to see is an understatement. There are millions of square feet of stuff on display from over 4,000 exhibitors. That’s ...

Engineers have fabricated transparent, gel-based robots that move when water is pumped in and out of them. The bots can perform a number of fast, forceful tasks, including kicking a ball underwater, ...

Computer vision tech helps robots get a grasp on transparent objects By Ben Coxworth July 15, 2020 A Sawyer robot utilizes the technology to ascertain the three-dimensional shape of transparent ...

Los Angeles, Apr 26 (PTI) Scientists have developed an innovative, transparent eel-like robot that can swim silently in salt water without an electric motor. The robot created by engineers and marine ...