It’s not easy to give a robot a sense of touch

By Ajay Pandey and Jonathan Roberts and published in The Conversation.

We have robots that can walk, see, talk and hear, and manipulate objects in their robotic hands. There’s even a robot that can smell.

But what about a sense of touch? This is easier said than done and there are limitations to some of the current methods being looked at, but we’re developing a new technique that can overcome some of those problems.

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