String art is one of those deceptively simple things: Crisscross string back and forth between tiny nails hammered into a board until they form a recognizable image. At the simplest levels, it’s ...

You've no doubt seen string art before – it consists of images created by running thread between pins on a board. Well, scientists at Austria's Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) have recently ...

London, Sep 13 (PTI) Scientists say they have used a robot to create string art, a visual artwork where images emerge from a set of strings that are spanned between pins. The basic idea of string art ...

In the depths of Etsy and Pinterest is a fascinating, if tedious, artform. String art, the process of nailing pins in a board and wrapping thread around the perimeter to create shapes and shading, The ...

(Nanowerk News) A robotic arm lays out a string in a mandala-like pattern on a bed of gravel. What appears to be a contemporary art performance is basic research that explores new ways in road ...

A team of researchers from NVIDIA, ETH Zurich, and the University of Toronto open-sourced Orbit, a simulation-based robot learning framework. Orbit includes wrappers for four learning libraries, a ...

Let’s face it, robots are cool. They’re also going to run the world some day, and hopefully, at that time they will take pity on their poor soft fleshy creators (a.k.a. robotics developers) and help ...