A new imaging technique makes it possible to precisely digitize clear objects and their surroundings, an achievement that has eluded current state-of-the-art 3-D rendering methods. A new imaging ...

Kyocera has unveiled a triple lens AI depth camera capable of recognizing semi-transparent, thin, and fine line-shaped ...

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. Transparent and ...

The most common robot found in homes today is probably a robot vacuum, but in the future we could see robots in control of most household chores. They need to understand how to deal with transparent ...

Who doesn't love shiny things? Well... robots for one. The same goes for transparent objects. At least, that's long been the case. Machine vision has stumbled when it comes to shiny or reflective ...

SICK, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of sensors, safety systems, machine vision, encoders and automatic identification solutions for factory and logistics automation, announced the launch of ...

Automated reconstruction of the three-dimensional shape of objects is a task critical to industry, particularly for quality control and defect analysis. Unfortunately, many traditional techniques are ...

Picking up transparent objects is hard when you’re a robot. Many of the traditional cameras and sensors just can’t get a good enough view to tell the grasper where to go. The light from infrared ...

Compared with inorganic two-dimensional (2D) materials, such as graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides, organic 2D materials are believed to possess more interesting chemical and biological ...

An animated sequence that illustrates a range of different light sources. The Sun, fire, electric lights and torches are all shown. Darkness is presented as the absence of light and shadows as ...