In laboratories from Brazil to Munich, researchers are learning to grab matter with sound alone, sculpting ultrasonic waves ...

Inspired by the effortless way humans handle objects without seeing them, engineers have developed a new approach that enables a robotic hand to rotate objects solely through touch, without relying on ...

A team of international scientists co-led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have discovered a ...

NPR's Asma Khalid talks to David Gompert, a longtime presidential adviser, about the unidentified objects that have been floating in the sky. U.S. jets shot down three of them in the past three days.

Estimating the pose of hand-held objects is a critical and challenging problem in robotics and computer vision. While leveraging multi-modal RGB and depth data is a promising solution, existing ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Republican Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota, member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, about the classified briefing on the floating objects that have been shot down.

The US Government has shot down several strange objects floating in US airspace in recent weeks. While the initial buzz linked the objects to stereotypical UFOs and extraterrestrials, we now know at ...

Researchers manipulated water waves to move ping pong balls with a level of precision that seems straight out of a sci-fi movie. Reading time 3 minutes Imagine hopping onto a large floatie in a lake ...

Sweden’s coasts are facing a UFO problem—reports of "unidentified floating objects"—and they're creating unexpected issues at sea. Reading time 2 minutes Well, here’s something you don’t find floating ...

image: Inspired by the effortless way humans handle objects without seeing them, a team led by engineers at the University of California San Diego has developed a new approach that enables a robotic ...