Transparent gel-based robots can catch and release live fish Made from hydrogel, robots may one day assist in surgical operations, evade underwater detection Date: February 1, 2017 Source ...

Transparent eel-like soft robot can swim silently underwater Date: April 26, 2018 Source: University of California - San Diego Summary: An innovative, eel-like robot developed by engineers and ...

Robots still struggle with materials that the human eye can easily detect, such as glass, shiny metal, or jet-black surfaces. These materials don’t reflect light in predictable ways, making them ...

Each image shows up to five transparent objects, either on a flat ground plane or inside a tote with various backgrounds and lighting. And a separate set of 286 real-world images with ...

The main problem TRI managed to overcome was allowing robots to interact with transparent and reflective objects, be that a clear glass tumbler or a glass surface such as a table or window.

(Nanowerk News) Engineers at MIT have fabricated transparent, gel-based robots that move when water is pumped in and out of them. The bots can perform a number of fast, forceful tasks, including ...

An innovative, eel larvae-like robot developed by engineers and a marine biologist at the University of California can swim silently in salt water without an electric motor.Instead, the robot uses ...