7 years ago
Robotic fingers get touchy-feely
Scientists have endowed a soft robot with sensitivity akin to the human sense of touch. A team led by Robert Wood and Jennifer Lewis at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, used 3D printing to make rubber robotic fingers with feedback sensors composed of a conductive gel. When the researchers manipulated the fingers, the sensors supplied data on each finger’s orientation, and detected contact with other surfaces.
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