Sentence examples for close to an object from inspiring English sources

Metta, meanwhile, has developed a touch-sensitive skin to enhance iCub's ability to gauge when it is getting too close to an object and is in danger of hitting it – a prerequisite for persuading people that it is safe to interact with robots at close quarters.

These models represent geometric forms such as surfaces that are designed to simulate elastic sheets so that when they are placed close to an object's boundary the models will deform under the influence of internal and external forces to conform to the shape of the object boundary.

The user can adequately select some points close to an object to obtain a segmentation result that is closest to that observed with naked eyes.

As clusters necessarily need to be close to an object, any cluster without at least one associated blob is interpreted as erroneous and discarded.

Around the same time, near-field scanning optical microscope (NSOM) in which evanescent waves are obtained by putting detector very close to an object was proposed [4, 5].

This bone was used to model a tumor close to an object having true bone attenuation (spine insert only approximates real bone density) and to make the attenuation at the bottom of the phantom less homogeneous.

This involves positioning a spacecraft close to a target object and using long-lived ion thrusters to maintain the separation between the two.

Patients were also shown control videos showing a static hand, close to a target object.

First up, the new engine employs 'Sub D', or subdivision surfaces, a graphical effect which – as the name suggests – subdivides polygons as the camera draws closer to an object, creating almost perfectly curved surfaces.

Instead, bring your pet closer to an object you want them to see, instead of pointing to it with your finger.

But in the California budget process, he has met something close to an immovable object.