Haptics—technology that recreates the sense of touch—has long been a missing piece in digital interaction. Screens can show images, speakers ...

Sentante announced today that the FDA accepted its stroke treatment system into its Total Product Life Cycle Advisory Program (TAP).

EPFL researchers have developed a customizable soft robotic system that uses compressed air to produce shape changes, vibrations, and other haptic, or tactile, feedback. The device holds promise for ...

The Canadian company Haply Robotics develops haptic interfaces for device control that transfer position, movement, and forces in multiple degrees of freedom from the hand to electronics. In practice, ...

Engineers, developers or hobbyists interested in building haptic feedback systems may be interested in TactorBots a haptic design Toolkit specifically designed for “out of the lab exploration of ...

When not engaged with robotics or programming workshops, attendees could take tours of Penn’s GRASP Robotics Lab. Visitors could even high-five a humanoid PR 2 robot in the Haptic Lab. The entrance ...

Robots that can sense and act through touch? That is what Aayush Kulkarni, an undergraduate visiting student, taught a robot to do during his internship at RIT. Kulkarni is participating in the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . It is not unusual to see a robot in a hospital environment today. In general, robots in medicine help by ...

A haptic sleeve that would provide a sense of touch as astronauts manipulate a robotic arm is among the projects under development at the WearLab in the UC Davis Department of Design. (NASA photo) ...

Manipulation and sensing have long been considered two key pillars for unlocking robotics’ potential. There’s a fair bit of overlap between the two, of course. As grippers have become a fundamental ...

Robots are able to conduct a lot of tasks more efficiently than their human counterparts, but activities that require fine motor skill were once out of grasp - but researchers are moving in the right ...