Snippet: ‘sonic tractor beam’ does some mid-air sewing

Acoustic device can levitate and manipulate multiple items, simultaneously.

Learn more - https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/12/watch-sonic-tractor-beam-do-some-midair-sewing

Read the paper - https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/12/11/1813047115

Video credit - A. Marzo et al., PNAS 2018 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1813047115

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