They have developed a lidar that they think can be shrunk to the size of a box of matches and which will, according to Scott Davis, one the firm's co-founders, cost hundreds, rather than thousands of dollars if mass produced.Existing lidars sweep the beam mechanically, and this mechanism takes up space.
Mechanically, we're already there: driverless cars, Siri, Facebook ad-targeting algorithms that can pick at your most private insecurities.
Once a year, like clockwork during the third week of March, millions of Americans mechanically pour their hard-earned wages into NCAA tournament pools they have virtually no chance of winning.
The farms are much bigger and they're all mechanically minded – they sit on tractors".
The fear is that players of his generation can become infantilised, as mechanically dependant as infuriatingly over-dressed modern cars, with their electronically variable valve-timing, their six months in the workshop to recalibrate the flux capacitor that powers the wing mirror hinge.
Many of those winning designs seem mechanically complex and wholly inappropriate in meeting the needs of the global poor.
Mr Heraud is coy about Lettuce Bot's cost, but says it will be competitive with manual labour.Its creators are also working on a machine capable of excising weeds mechanically using a rotating blade.
Russia's president, stricken with fever, pneumonia and perhaps other ailments, gesticulated mechanically at his Chinese visitor, Jiang Zemin.
As the ship moves through a spill, the oil-impregnated wool will be gathered mechanically up ramps and taken into the ship.
As the pile's other control rods were mechanically withdrawn, radiation counters ticked up.
On November 27th a jury chose a winner.To make paper, you either grind woodchips mechanically to separate the fibres, or cook them with chemicals to remove the lignin, which binds the fibres together.
