News tagged with object motion
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 ...
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Micromechanical mirror performs under pressure... of light
(Phys.org) -- A team of scientists from PML's Quantum Measurement Division has designed and tested a novel device that may lead to substantial progress in the new and fast-moving field of optomechanics.
Apr 06, 2012 |
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Time crystals could behave almost like perpetual motion machines
(PhysOrg.com) -- As every young science student knows, moving objects have kinetic energy. But just how much energy does something need to move? In a new study, a pair of physicists has shown that it’s ...
Feb 20, 2012 |
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Faster computer graphics
Photographs of moving objects are almost always a little blurry — or a lot blurry, if the objects are moving rapidly enough. To make their work look as much like conventional film as possible, game and ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jun 13, 2011 |
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Why older people are less astute drivers and how the answer could help us understand depression
When elderly drivers get behind the wheel, they often confront the harrowing reality that they cannot easily see other cars, pedestrians, or cyclists moving around them. This frightening effect of aging, it ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 25, 2011 |
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Two or three is all we see
The human brain can see only up to three moving objects at a given instant, new research has found.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 15, 2010 |
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Training eye movement may reduce driver distraction
More than 16 people are killed and more than 1,300 people are injured each day in crashes involving a distracted driver, a phenomenon that could be reduced with the right application of motion information and appropriate ...
Jun 08, 2010 |
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Epson Toyocom Develops the World's Smallest Single Package 6-Axis Sensor
Epson Toyocom Corporation, the leader in crystal devices, today announced the development of the AH-6100LR, the world's smallest 6-axis sensor. This low-noise, low-power product comprises a 3-axis QMEMS quartz ...
Feb 23, 2010 |
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Seeing things: Researchers teach computers to recognize objects
(PhysOrg.com) -- If computers could recognize objects, they could automatically search through hours of video footage for a particular two-minute scene. A tourist strolling down a street in a strange city ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 13, 2009 |
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How You Feel the World Impacts How You See It
In the classic waterfall illusion, if you stare at the downward motion of a waterfall for some period of time, stationary objects -- like rocks -- appear to drift upward. MIT neuroscientists have found that ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 03, 2009 |
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