In a paper accepted to the SIGGRAPH Asia conference taking place next month,the team presents a new technology called RF Capture that picks up wireless reflections off the human body to see... Read more
How is it possible to walk through 3D virtual realities while staying in one place? Engineers from the Vienna University of Technology have solved this problem and are now introducing their... Read more
A humanoid robot can receive an object handed to it by a person with something approaching natural, human-like motion A humanoid robot can receive an object handed to it by a person with som... Read more
It’s a point-and-shoot camera that creates digital 3D models of whatever it’s pointed at It may look like a rather beefy tablet, but the Lynx A is actually a device that could make life easi... Read more
A line of active gaming products aimed at keeping children fit While opinions are divided on how video games affect young minds, one thing seems to be definite – spending a lot of time playi... Read more
The MH-2 acts as an avatar, or a remote person Japanese researchers have taken another step into the dimension of weird for robotics: a wearable miniature humanoid virtual presence. T... Read more
The capture and analysis of surveillance footage has been an indispensable tool for U.S. counterterrorism and law enforcement in the past decade. Video analysis software has improved since t... Read more
Computer-generated imagery (CGI) has become such a staple of modern movie-making that most people know what actors are doing when prancing around in front of green screens wearing skin-tight... Read more