Sentences with phrase «created tractor beams»

So far, none of the teams has actually created a tractor beam.

The sound passes through these tubes and when it exits the metamaterial, it has the correct phases to create a tractor beam,» said Marzo.

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The tractor beam works by surrounding the object with high - intensity sound and this creates a force field that keeps the objects in place.

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.