Sentences with phrase «human arm»

The team will continue their tests using an artificial human arm to model the physical effects of far more severe collisions.

By extending the range between the camera and the subject (likely yourself) further than a natural human arm span, it allows the frame of the photo to be expanded.

I was involved in a project that investigated the modulation of human arm stiffness with the presence of external perturbations.

Pacific Rim (for those unfamiliar) is a futuristic war epic revolving around the battle between humans armed with 25 - foot - tall self - controlled robots - and enormous creatures from another dimension.

It carries a severed human arm in its mouth.

Last summer, mechanical engineer Homayoon Kazerooni at the University of California at Berkeley finished building what he calls an extender for human arms.

Another benefit of the new CU Boulder e-skin is that it can be easily conformed to curved surfaces like human arms and robotic hands by applying moderate heat and pressure to it without introducing excessive stresses.

Even a casual observer of canine interaction can tell you that humping behaviors involve everything from stuffed animals to couch pillows, from human arms to table legs.

However, many parents turn to a swing or bouncer for a little extra oomph when baby just can't be soothed by rocking or bouncing by human arms.

Research in human arm stiffness can give us deeper insights in the organization of motor control for multijoint arm movements that can be applied to robotics or limb prosthetics design where stability is a concern.

On one of their visits to the site after locating the wreckage, they found a severed human arm complete with its hand embedded in the ice.

If human arms were rigid, such as our robot arms, and if human hands only had two fingers, such as our grippers, then humans would probably have a harder time than our robots assembling the chair.»

Ultimately, Badylak believes that ECM will lead to therapies that regrow amputated human arms and legs, much as salamanders and starfish regenerate limbs, although he realizes that this may not happen in his lifetime.

«Human arm sensors make robot smarter.»

Half robot, half garment, it's designed to amplify the strength and agility of human arms while doing dangerous or difficult tasks.

If none of these are available, they will treat human arms and legs as playthings.

Wield a variety of weapons from regular human arms to intense alien based tools in this first person shooter.

Laric intersperses these animated runs with stills of disturbing, digitally - modeled «crossbreeds» — slick machines with lumpy human arms and legs; a melted humanoid in a black oily pool on the ground surrounded by clothing he once wore; a submissive hybrid on its hands and knees in front of a standing woman, who is taking its picture like an animal at the zoo.

The Norwegian Lundehund is also remarkably flexible, being able to tilt its head backwards to touch its back and outstretch its legs to a full 90 - degree horizontal angle like human arms.

In 10 years, we will begin to see prosthetic arms equal to human arms in most tasks, including sensing touch and playing the piano.

Designed to rock back and forth in a manner similar to that of human arms, these swings act as comforters, soothers, sedatives, and nurturers.

but he cant prevent war or control a human arm?

A man places a human arm on a cutting board with care, readying his chef's knife.

The idea is probably to settle for competence in the rotation until Tyler Glasnow and / or Jameson Taillon are ready, with Cory Luebke a perfect Pirates gamble that might pay off, but it's extraordinarily bold to count on a prospect - led cavalry when 60 percent of the rotation features low - upside veterans and the No. 2 starter is Francisco Liriano — who used to be synonymous with the cruelty of baseball and the fragility of the human arm.

The internal resistance, or opposition to electrical current flow, may be different for a human arm than for an animal with scales or fur, like a crocodile or a dog, Catania notes.

«Bat wings are highly articulated, with wing skeletons very similar to those of human arms and hands,» says Julian Colorado at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain.

Surgeons lose some of the tactile feel they use to make certain judgments, but many say they gain a larger range of motion, as robotic arms and «hands» can do things that human arms and hands can not.

It was difficult to capture an image through thicker samples, such as a human arm, because too much light was scattered back from the tissue.

As the researchers report online today in Science, the panel keeps working even when stretched 10 times its original area, and, as the video above shows, it can be used to play a virtual piano while molded around a human arm.

The external system uses a human arm - scale industrial robot that has been customized to support a highly automated surgical arm and suturing device.

For example, «woodpeckerlike habits» are seen in lemurs and extinct marsupials, while the mechanics of an octopus» tentacles are far closer to those of a human arm than we might expect, and even their suckers can operate rather like hands.

For fine control of instruments, STAR uses a robotic arm with eight degrees of freedom — one more than the human arm.

Lab tests are now being conducted on the bone, which Schablitsky suspects is from a human arm or leg that was butchered and then cooked.

Human arms, birds» wings, cats» paws and the whales» flippers are classical examples of homology, because they all derive from the limbs of a common ancestor.

When a human arm curls a weight, it goes from fully extended to fully contracted.

I also had the opportunity to work with a robotic manipulandum that was able to exert small perturbations to the human arm and track the position of the moving hand.

The set - up is similar to the human arm, which has upper and forearms of roughly equal lengths, the scientists say.

A few years ago several individuals, including Yoseph Bar - Cohen, a senior research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., posted a challenge to the electroactive polymer research community to drum up interest in the field: a race to build the first EAP - driven robotic arm that could beat a human arm wrestler one on one.

In this way, the actuators act like the opposing bicep and tricep muscles that control movements of the human arm.

«We are the first to admit that the human arm in the study has only preliminary results on a small subset of individuals,» says computational biologist Eran Segal, one of the study authors.

Dr Burgess said: «Our most striking discovery was the existence of a hinge between the long, thin stalk and the «grappling hook», like the wrist between a human arm and hand.

It has 22 degrees of freedom, compared with the human arm's 30, and can grasp precisely and firmly without crushing fragile objects.

Enter the Modular Prosthetic Limb (MPL), a bionic limb that closely approximates the form and agility of a human arm and hand.

Ethyl pyruvate substantially reduced the mosquitoes» attraction toward a human arm, in effect acting as a repellent.

That scenario is a lot like imagining the evolution of a human arm that's been removed from the body, says John Sutherland, an author of the study.

To control a human arm, your brain needs to keep track of just a few joints — a wrist, an elbow, and a shoulder.

Dogs of this breed are able to bend their head backwards along their own spine and turn their forelegs to the side at a 90 - degree horizontal angle to their body, much like human arms.