A new study suggests humans can sense hidden objects without touching them, by detecting faint movements in sand. This unexpected form of “remote touch” challenges traditional ideas about how the ...

There’s a nightmarish scene in Guillermo del Toro’s 2006 movie Pan’s Labyrinth in which we are confronted by a sinister humanoid creature called the Pale Man. With no eyes in his monstrous, hairless ...

Robotiq has announced the launch of its TSF-85 tactile sensor fingertips for the 2F-85 Adaptive Gripper, giving Physical AI ...

Can robots grasp diverse objects adaptively like humans? Published in National Science Review, researchers from Tsinghua University reports a human-taught sensory-control synergy approach that ...

Plants lack nerves, yet they can sensitively detect touch from other organisms. In the Venus flytrap, highly sensitive sensory hairs act as tactile sensing organs; when touched twice in quick ...