We’re increasingly developing bonds with chatbots. While that’s safe for some, it’s dangerous for others. It’s the most transparent estimate yet from one of the big AI companies, and a long-awaited ...

National Recovery Technologies (NRT), Nashville, Tennessee, has added the ColorPlus- R to the company’s product offering. Similar to the ColorPlus, the ColorPlus-R uses an image processing system to ...

If you think X-rays and other forms of radiation have a monopoly on penetrating opaque objects, visible light begs to differ. It actually can pass through things like paint and human tissue, which has ...

While this system works well enough on relatively dull opaque objects, it has problems with transparent items that much of the light passes through, or shiny objects that scatter the reflected light.

A team of researchers from the Netherlands and Italy has succeeded in making sharp pictures of objects hidden behind an opaque screen. A team of researchers from the Netherlands and Italy has ...

From Star Trek to Harry Potter, invisibility cloaks are a popular theme in science fiction. And now researchers have developed a new technique that could turn the futuristic technology into a reality.

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have been able to teach robots to pick up transparent or reflective objects. This has been a challenge for robots in the past, and the way researchers have ...

(Nanowerk News) 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.

EPFL’s 3D printer is one of the fastest in the world. Whereas most 3D printers work by depositing a material layer by layer in a process known as additive manufacturing, the EPFL one uses a volumetric ...