Sentences with phrase «acoustic tractor beam»

Marzo and other researchers, in collaboration with a company called Ultrahaptics, used that concept to create the first - ever acoustic tractor beam, which they described in this 2015 article in the journal Nature.

University of Bristol research assistant Asier Marzo, the lead author of an article on the project recently published in the journal Applied Physics Letters, says that the acoustic tractor beam relies on the fact that sound is a mechanical wave that carries momentum.

Last year Asier Marzo, then a doctoral student at the Public University of Navarre, helped develop the first single - sided acoustic tractor beam — that is, the first realization of trapping and pulling an object using sound waves from only one direction.

Not exact matches

Researchers have now built a working tractor beam that uses high - amplitude sound waves to generate an acoustic hologram which can pick up and move small objects.

The team have shown that three different shapes of acoustic force fields work as tractor beams.