Touch | Brighter Side News

Joseph Shavit

Scientists develop artificial skin that can feel pain

Researchers developed an SPS-enabled artificial skin which mimicks human skin for pain perception and sensitivity to touch.

Joseph Shavit

Artificial skin could give robots a sense of touch similar to humans

One of many special human qualities is the ability to handle objects with skill and precision. This is all down to our sense of touch.

Joseph Shavit

Electronic skin that can feel in real time just like humans do

It is paramount for electric skin – being developed for artificial skin – to be capable of reacting to the external environment in real time

Joseph Shavit

Gamechanging armband helps users of prosthetic hands to ‘get a grip’

Researchers design first-of-its-kind multichannel soft robotic armband that conveys artificial sensations of touch.

Joseph Shavit

Scientists are developing interactive holograms you can touch and feel

An immersive, realistic 3D holographic projection of a complete environment that you could interact with and even touch may soon be here.

Joseph Shavit

Harvard researchers unravel the mystery of touch and why some body parts are so sensitive

Harvard researchers have uncovered a mechanism that may explain why certain body parts are so sensitive.

Joshua Shavit

Engineers create 3D-printed objects that sense how a user is interacting with them

MIT researchers have developed a new method to 3D print mechanisms that detect how force is being applied to an object.

Joseph Shavit

Researchers are developing interactive holograms you can touch and feel

Star Trek: The Next Generation introduced millions of people to the idea of a complete environment that you could interact with and touch.

Joseph Shavit

Cut your finger and lost your sense of touch? There's hope yet

Tel Aviv University's new and groundbreaking technology inspires hope among people that lost their sense of touch in the nerves of a limb