Haptics: Science and Engineering for the Sense of Touch
It has been a long-standing challenge to create new technologies that can match the perceptual and movement abilities of the human hand and its sense of touch in robots. Yon Visell describes the work in his lab on haptics, the science and engineering for the sense of touch, and explains how the results are guiding the development of new technologies for wearable computing, and robotics. Recorded on 07/09/2018. [10/2018] [Show ID: 33939]
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