If you've ever moved into a new home, you know the challenge of packing a moving truck—it's like solving a giant, ...

Touch is the sense that brings us into direct contact with reality, revealing shape, texture, and resistance. Designing soft ...

A robot's sensitivity to touch could be vastly improved by an array of polymer-based tactile sensors that has been combined with a robust signal-processing algorithm to classify surface textures. The ...

Researchers at USC's Viterbi School of Engineering have developed a robot capable of identifying materials, thanks to a tactile sensor. The so-called BioTac sensor mimics the human finger, with ...

Eight years ago, Ted Adelson's research group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) unveiled a new sensor technology, called GelSight, that uses physical contact ...

The latest entrant in the humanoid robot space is Germany-based Agile Robotics, which has just unveiled the Agile ONE. And it ...

Because of different types of sensory nerve endings in our fingertips, we are amazingly good at sensing hidden objects in ...

Three years ago, we first heard about GelSight – an experimental new system for imaging microscopic objects. At the time, its suggested applications were in fields such as aerospace, forensics, ...

SHANGHAI: A Chinese-made humanoid robot has set a new Guinness World Record by walking 106km between the country’s eastern ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A robot's sensitivity to touch could be vastly improved by an array of polymer-based tactile sensors that has been combined with a robust signal-processing algorithm to classify ...

Eight years ago, researchers unveiled a new sensor technology, called GelSight, that uses physical contact with an object to provide a remarkably detailed 3-D map of its surface. Now, by mounting ...