{"id":101420,"date":"2020-01-26T16:44:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T00:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/swiss-researcher-develops-unreal-robot-hand-that-levitates-objects"},"modified":"2020-01-26T16:44:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T00:44:59","slug":"swiss-researcher-develops-unreal-robot-hand-that-levitates-objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/swiss-researcher-develops-unreal-robot-hand-that-levitates-objects","title":{"rendered":"Swiss researcher develops unreal robot hand that levitates objects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3vopyV3rYgk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Proving once again that truth is often stranger than fiction, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfywire\/erich-von-daniken-on-his-chariots-of-the-gods-at-50\">Swiss<\/a> researcher has recently developed an astonishing new type of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfywire\/spacebit-spider-robot-moon-2021\">robotic<\/a> hand that can actually lift small items via invisible sound waves. While it might appear to be a clever conjuror\u2019s trick, it\u2019s really employing an old invention called ultrasonic levitation, whereby objects are captured and levitated using the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfywire\/dark-horse-crone-sneak-peek\">sorcery<\/a> of science.<\/p>\n<p>Researcher Marcel Schuck of the <a href=\"http:\/\/info@notouchrobotics.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Swiss Federal Institute of Technology<\/a> in Zurich is utilizing a strange phenomenon whose history dates back 80 years, but fusing the technology into modern robotics applications. Schuck\u2019s initial touchless gripper resembles a halved gourd attached to a network of wires and containing dozens of miniature loudspeakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proving once again that truth is often stranger than fiction, a Swiss researcher has recently developed an astonishing new type of robotic hand that can actually lift small items via invisible sound waves. While it might appear to be a clever conjuror\u2019s trick, it\u2019s really employing an old invention called ultrasonic levitation, whereby objects are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}