Tactile robot finger at Columbia Engineering is the first without blind spots

Optical tactile robot finger, shown here without its skin to illustrate its operation.

Developing a humanlike sense of touch has been challenging for roboticists. Researchers at Columbia Engineering here recently announced that they have created a robot finger that can localize touch with a high degree of precision over a large, multicurved surface.

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