The science of human touch – and why it’s so hard to replicate in robots

[ad_1] aerogondo2/Shutterstock Robots now see the world with an ease that once belonged only to science fiction. They can recognise objects, navigate cluttered spaces and sort thousands of parcels an hour. But ask a robot to touch something gently, safely or meaningfully, and the limits appear instantly. As a researcher in soft robotics working on […]

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