A chair can still look like a chair even when its surface is reduced to a sparse cloud of points. Humans are remarkably good ...

Engineers from Britain implemented a novel approach to improve how robots grip and handle fragile, slippery or asymmetric objects. The breakthrough slip-prevention method shows impressive results and ...

Using a novel relevance framework developed at MIT, the robot identifies and prioritizes objects in the scene to autonomously assist humans in a seamless, intelligent, and safe manner. CAMBRIDGE, MA - ...

A robotic hand developed at EPFL can pick up 24 different objects with human-like movements that emerge spontaneously, thanks to compliant materials and structures rather than programming. When you ...

Humans perceive aesthetic beauty in inanimate objects partly because the brain is highly attuned to patterns. The visual system is especially sensitive to symmetry and proportion. When a form is ...

Archaeologists excavating 400,000-year-old rock in western Ukraine have uncovered fragments of what could be the oldest human-made ivory objects ever found. These artefacts would have been too soft to ...