This sheet metal bump was used by Etta Anderson, a sheet metal worker in the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard during World War II. This object was donated by Jacqueline Anderson, Etta’s daughter-in-law.

Abstract: LiDAR directly acquires 3D point measurements of physical surfaces, making it well-suited for interpreting objects in tasks such as object reconstruction and semantic mapping. However, each ...

Here's what psychology says about people who apologize to things that can't hear them. We've all been there. You accidentally knock into a chair, and before you can stop yourself, "Sorry!" escapes ...

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Abstract: The environmental map plays a crucial role in facilitating the service robot target object search (TOS). In order to enhance the efficiency of robot TOS and deepen the robot's understanding ...

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Copying objects is a common Java programming operation that has one serious trap. Here's how to avoid copying from an object reference and only copy the instance and values you want. Copying objects ...

Not that he’s any stranger when it comes to making a complete fool of himself but the Washington Post’s Philip Bump took his clownishness to an entirely new level by trying to fact-check Florida ...

AwesomeBump is a free program written using Qt library designed to generate normal, height, specular or ambient occlusion textures from a single image. Since the image processing is done in 99% on GPU ...