News tagged with deformable objects

Researchers develop a robot that folds towels (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team from Berkeley's Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences department has figured out how to get a robot to fold previously unseen towels of different sizes. Their approach solves a key problem in ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Apr 05, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Novel zoom objective with deformable mirrors

Unmanned aerial vehicles UAVs deployed on landscape analysis missions carry optical measuring equipment that is required to operate free of chromatic aberration. Researchers have now designed an all-reflective ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jan 18, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0




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Is a classical electrodynamics law incompatible with special relativity?

(Phys.org) -- The laws of classical electromagnetism that were developed in the 19th century are the same laws that scientists use today. They include Maxwell’s four equations along with the Lorentz la ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (19) | comments 43 | with audio podcast feature

Hall effect at the speed of light: How can you demonstrate relativistic effects with your mobile phone?

The relativistic Hall effect describing objects rotating at speeds comparable with the speed of light has been reported.

Physics / General Physics

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 8

Robots learn to pick up oddly shaped objects

(Phys.org) -- When Cornell engineers developed a new type of robot hand that could pick up oddly shaped objects it presented a challenge: It was easy for a human operator to choose the best place to take h ...

Electronics / Robotics

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

New technique predictably generates complex, wavy shapes

The flexible properties of hydrogels — highly absorbent, gelatinous polymers that shrink and expand depending on environmental conditions such as humidity, pH and temperature — have made them ideal ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 03, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New nano-measurements add spark to centuries-old theory of friction

The phenomenon of friction, when studied on a nanoscale, is more complex than previously thought. When friction occurs, an object does not simply slide its surface over that of another, it also makes a slight up-and-down ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

NRL scientists optimize arctic sea ice data products

Scientists from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Marine Geosciences Division are assisting NASA, the US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) and the European Space Agency (ESA) ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Buckliball' opens new avenue in design of foldable engineering structures (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Motivated by the desire to determine the simplest 3-D structure that could take advantage of mechanical instability to collapse reversibly, a group of engineers at MIT and Harvard University ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers suggest magnetic anomalies on the Moon are the result of asteroid collision

In the nearly five decades since the first lunar surveys were conducted as part of NASA's Apollo program, scientists have advanced a number of increasingly complex theories to explain the vast swaths of highly ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Solution proposed to suffering caused by horse nosebands

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nosebands on horse bridles are being tightened so much in some equestrian competitions that horses are suffering stress, reduced blood flow in the area and ultimately even deformed nasal bones, ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Missing dark matter located: Intergalactic space is filled with dark matter

Researchers at the University of Tokyo’s Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU) and Nagoya University used large-scale computer simulations and recent observational data of gravitational ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (40) | comments 72 | with audio podcast


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