A new sensor gives robots a human-like sense of touch, helping them handle objects safely while improving wearables and ...

Robots are starting to flinch. New generations of electronic skin can register heat, pressure and even damaging force, then trigger lightning-fast reflexes that look less like code and more like ...

Touch is the first way we come to know the world. Before we speak, before we even open our eyes, we feel. And what we feel matters because touch tells us we’re alive, we’re safe, we’re not alone. It’s ...

A new bandage-like device allows people to “feel” textures through touchscreens. The soft, stretchable material wraps around a fingertip to give digital touch the same realism people now expect from ...

Researchers have discovered a hidden mechanism within hair follicles that allow us to feel touch. Imperial researchers have discovered a hidden mechanism within hair follicles that allow us to feel ...

The lab of University of Virginia systems engineer Gregory J. Gerling recently made a discovery on a touchy subject: why women generally seem to have a more acute sense of touch than men. "Basically, ...

Imperial researchers have discovered a hidden mechanism within hair follicles that allow us to feel touch. Previously, touch was thought to be detected only by nerve endings present within the skin ...

Research says that our health can suffer when we don’t experience enough physical contact. Here’s how to get more. Credit...Vanessa Saba Supported by By Christina Caron Allora Dannon, 35, an author ...

Professor Gregory Gerling, shown with Ph.D. alumnus Chang Xu, and his students develop tools and methods to scientifically describe our sense of touch. Touch is a critical part of how we interact with ...