Improvements in three-dimensional (3D) scanning have enabled quick and accurate scanning of 3D objects, including cultural heritage objects, as 3D point cloud data. However, conventional ...

The past few weeks, I've returned to a project I worked on over a year ago to add some new features. One thing that is bugging me is how I am building some of the more complex objects from an input ...

This figure illustrates the automated classification and placement system that integrates a capillary force gripper with machine learning. The left panel shows the system configuration, in which a ...

Imaging buried objects Left: artistic impression of metal spheres buried in small glass beads; centre: conventional ultrasound image; right: the new technology can precisely determine the positions of ...

Hackers frequently find themselves reverse-engineering or interfacing to existing hardware and devices, and when that interface needs to be a physical one, it really pays to be able to take accurate ...

If we want to understand complex constructions, such as ourselves, assembly theory says we must account for the entire history of how such entities came to be. Life on other worlds — if it exists — ...

As the biosphere contains, at last count, more than 7.9 billion human brains, we can confidently state that the biosphere as an object is at least 7.9 billion times more complex than a brain.