Alloys that can return to their original structure after being deformed have a so-called shape memory. This phenomenon and the resulting forces are used in many mechanical actuating systems, for ...

Graduate students at the University of Tokyo have outdone themselves and are changing the way we look at drones with their newest invention. They created a group of futuristic-looking drone prototypes ...

For the study the researchers recruited 35 dogs who were trained to fetch a target object from a set of distractors. During testing, the dogs were presented with two choices: one matching the target ...

When most people think of shapes, they imagine a triangle, a rectangle, or maybe even a fancier-sounding rhombus or trapezoid. But to mathematicians, shapes encompass a vast universe of surprising ...

If a robot is going to be grasping delicate objects, then that bot had better know what those objects are, so it can treat them accordingly. A new robotic hand allows it to do so, by sensing the shape ...

Years ago I would have melted lead and poured it into the object to be weighted, maybe used a form to cast it first if there was danger of the object melting and letting liquid lead run everywhere.

InDesign is a desktop publishing and layout software for creating fliers, magazines, books, and digital publications. Shapes in InDesign can be used as they are for artwork, they can be combined and ...