Engineering
Robo-picker grasps and packs
22 Feb 2018
The `pick-and-place' system consists of a standard industrial robotic arm that the researchers outfitted with a custom gripper and suction cup controlled by an 'object-agnostic' grasping algorithm that enables the robot to assess a bin of random objects and determine the best way to grip or suction onto an item amid the clutter, without having to know anything about the object beforehand
Improving drone performance in headwinds
10 Feb 2018
From laboratory to marketplace
06 Feb 2018
Changing the colour of 3-D printed objects
30 Jan 2018
Using their own 3-D printable ink that changes colour when exposed to UV light, researchers can recolour a multi-coloured object in just over 20 minutes