If you accidentally put your hand on a hot object, you'll naturally pull it away fast, before you have to think about it.

A U.S. Army soldier is participating in a clinical trial at Walter Reed testing a neural-enabled prosthetic limb designed to ...

Touch is a mechanical sense, detecting physical stimuli such as pressure, texture, stretch, vibrations and flow. Touch receptors come in a variety of forms — special cells, often housed in bumps or ...

Despite how advanced robots have become, getting them to feel the way humans do is an incredibly complex challenge.

Humans can detect buried objects without touching them, sensing faint pressure ripples in sand. Scientists are calling this ...

Traditional senses, along with the newly discovered ones, are complex in nature. Touch is not just skin contact, but also ...

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Scientists with the Bao Research Group at Stanford University have created a new electronic skin that can mimic the sense of touch. The "e-skin," as some refer to it, is detailed in a new study ...

Even before we are born and begin experiencing the sensations of daily life — a soft shirt on our arms, for example, or a hard tabletop under our fingertips — humans begin to form the senses needed to ...

A demonstration of GelSight’s ability to detect texture. Robots have become increasingly advanced over the past decade, and are found everywhere from warehouses to surgery theaters. But if robots are ...

Sensitivity signals from our skin! It’s “all hands on deck” as the crew investigates how our brains process the sense of touch! STEM Challenge: Making 2-Point Discrimination Testers Curious About ...