Not exact matches
German automation company Festo and China's Beihang University have built a prototype OctopusGripper, which has a pneumatic tentacle made
of silicone that gently wraps itself around an
object, while air is pumped in or
out of suction cups to
grasp it.
By now, they have mostly
grasped the concept
of «
object permanence ``, an important milestone reflecting a baby's understanding that when something is
out of sight, it still exists.
This can be achieved by helping your child with certain play patterns such as
grasping small
objects, pouring water
out of cups, squeezing things like sponges, and doing other activities that force a child to use their hands in creative ways.
«We wanted to find
out how and where visual information about
grasped objects, for example their shape or size, and motor characteristics
of the hand, like the strength and type
of a grip, are processed in the different
grasp - related areas
of the brain,» says Schaffelhofer.
Once you've
grasped how all
of these basic mechanics combine together, ChromaGun does a fairly solid job
of introducing new environmental
objects that add just enough variety to turn your brain inside
out.
Yet arrived at is not simply an
object - a painting - but an encounter: with memory, desire, emotion; something within
grasp yet just
out of reach.
Yet arrived at is not simply an
object — a painting — but an encounter: with memory, desire, emotion; something within
grasp yet just
out of reach.
While Duchamp cryptically crafted his idiosyncratic «a priori
of objects» to guide possible associative meaning in his work, Rauschenberg was balls
out in his encyclopedic
grasp of the objective world.