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

Robots now see the world with an ease that once belonged only to science fiction. They can recognise objects, navigate ...
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Teaching Robots to Sense Object Properties Using Only Their Joints

Can a robot figure out how heavy or soft an object is without using a single camera or force sensor? According to a recent arXiv paper, the answer is yes—and the solution lies entirely in how the ...