Soft robots use camera and shadows to sense human touch
Soft robots may not be in touch with human feelings, but they are getting better at feeling human touch.
Feb 09, 2021
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News tagged with touch
Engineering
Tech makes it possible to digitally communicate through human touch
Instead of inserting a card or scanning a smartphone to make a payment, what if you could simply touch the machine with your finger?
Dec 03, 2020
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Consumer & Gadgets
Apple may bring Force Touch to Macbook's Touch Bar
It appears Apple is planning an interesting touch for a future generation of its most powerful notebook, the Macbook Pro. In a recently disclosed patent application, Apple has indicated it will introduce Force Touch to an ...
Nov 30, 2020 report
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Energy-generating synthetic skin for affordable prosthetic limbs and touch-sensitive robots
A new type of energy-generating synthetic skin could create more affordable prosthetic limbs and robots capable of mimicking the sense of touch, scientists say.
Nov 30, 2020
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Electronics & Semiconductors
More skin-like: An electronic skin that can feel
What if we didn't have skin? We would have no sense of touch, no detection of coldness or pain, leaving us unable to respond to most situations. The skin is not just a protective shell for organs, but rather a signaling system ...
Nov 24, 2020
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Business
US jury tells Apple to pay $503 mn in patent case
A jury in Texas on Friday decided that Apple should pay $503 million for infringing virtual private network technology patented by software security firm VirnetX.
Oct 31, 2020
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Engineering
New glove-like device mimics sense of touch
What if you could touch a loved one during a video call—particularly in today's social distancing era of COVID-19—or pick up and handle a virtual tool in a video game?
Sep 09, 2020
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Engineering
Self-powered user-interactive electronic skin for programmable touch operation
User-interactive electronic skin can map the sense of touch through electronic readouts to provide visual output as a readable response. However, the high power consumption, complex structure and high cost of electronic skin ...
Jul 23, 2020 feature
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Robotics
Using deep learning to give robotic fingertips a sense of touch
Researchers at the University of Bristol have recently trained a deep-neural-network-based model to gather tactile information about 3-D objects. In their paper, published in IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, they applied ...
May 27, 2020 feature
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A highly performing and efficient e-skin for robotic applications
Researchers at Technische Universität München in Germany have recently developed an electronic skin that could help to reproduce the human sense of touch in robots. This e-skin, presented in a paper published in MDPI's ...
Apr 29, 2020 feature
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