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

China has developed a neuromorphic electronic skin that lets robots feel touch, detect injury, and react to pain with ...

Robots are starting to gain something that looks a lot like a sense of touch, and in some cases even a crude version of pain.

Meta is betting big on the emerging field of embodied AI by incorporating the sense of touch and feel to its robotic innovations. The technology giant is collaborating with US-based sensor company ...

Researchers in China have built a neuromorphic robotic electronic skin that allows humanoid robots to sense touch, detect ...

This week Amazon debuted a new warehouse robot that has a sense of "touch," but the company also promised its new bot will not replace human warehouse workers. On Monday, at Amazon's Delivering the ...

Meta made several major announcements for robotics and embodied AI systems this week. This includes releasing benchmarks and artifacts for better understanding and interacting with the physical world.

Robots excel at many things, but having a good sense of touch is not among them. Whether dropping items or pinching them too tightly, which crushes the object, many robots struggle with these basic ...

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

This article was commissioned in conjunction with the Professors’ Programme, part of Prototypes for Humanity, a global initiative that showcases and accelerates academic innovation to solve social and ...

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