To reliably complete household chores, assemble products and tackle other manual tasks, robots should be able to adapt their ...

Researchers in Hong Kong have taken a significant step towards safer and more responsive humanoid robots by developing an electronic skin that can feel touch and react to pain in a human-like ...

Abstract: Monocular three-dimensional (3D) scene understanding tasks, e.g., object size angle and 3D position, estimation are challenging to perform. More successful current methods usually require ...

Astronomers have detected a massive object moving in a synchronized path behind Earth. Early measurements suggest it has been trailing the planet longer than previously assumed. Its trajectory does ...

18 years ago, NASA lost an asteroid. Officially designated 2007 FT3, the Empire State Building-sized rock was tracked for around 24 hours before it slipped back into the solar system's darkness — and ...

Because of different types of sensory nerve endings in our fingertips, we are amazingly good at sensing hidden objects in granular materials like sand. Fingers moving over sand cause perturbations in ...

This is the first report of remote touch in humans. It changes our understanding of human perceptual world. May have robotics and assistive technology applications; help with exploration, search and ...

Imaging buried objects Left: artistic impression of metal spheres buried in small glass beads; centre: conventional ultrasound image; right: the new technology can precisely determine the positions of ...

Amazon wants to make it more convenient for you to spend money on its online shopping platform, making it as easy as pointing your phone’s camera at any object around you and finding it listed online.