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 ...

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 ...

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Who doesn't love shiny things? Well... robots for one. The same goes for transparent objects. At least, that's long been the case. Machine vision has stumbled when it comes to shiny or reflective ...

Picking up transparent objects is hard when you’re a robot. Many of the traditional cameras and sensors just can’t get a good enough view to tell the grasper where to go. The light from infrared ...

An animated sequence that illustrates a range of different light sources. The Sun, fire, electric lights and torches are all shown. Darkness is presented as the absence of light and shadows as ...

Robots have got pretty good at picking up objects. But give them something shiny or clear, and the poor droids will likely lose their grip. Not ideal if you want a kitchen robot that can slice you a ...

A see-through screen, digital 3D objects manipulated by hand, perspective adjustments according to the user's viewing angle - these are the core features of a prototype computer desktop user interface ...