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• Strokable robot rabbit talks with touch

  A pet robot that communicates with humans only by touch is being used to probe the way the oft-neglected sense bolsters our emotional relationships. The findings could be used to make humans' relationships with robots and other pieces of technology Read More...
  Posted Friday, May 23, 2008 5:05 AM by clementlawyer / 0 Comments

  Tags: Robotics, Haptic interfaces, robot pets

• Haptic glove to touch on virtual fabrics

  "Virtual fabric" that feels just like the real thing is being developed by European researchers in their HAPTEX project. Detailed models of the way fabrics behave are combined with new touch-stimulating hardware to realistically simulate a texture... Read more
  Posted Tuesday, February 13, 2007 10:27 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Virtual reality, Computer interfaces, Haptic interfaces