A sense for touch

C. Mathew Mate () and Robert W. Carpick ()
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C. Mathew Mate: C. Mathew Mate is at the Hitachi San Jose Research Center, San Jose, California 95135, USA.
Robert W. Carpick: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.

Nature, 2011, vol. 480, issue 7376, 189-190

Abstract: Will a sense of touch similar to that of humans ever be developed in robots? Results on the physics of friction for fingerprint-like ridges sliding across textured surfaces may lead the way to tactile robotic sensors.

Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1038/480189a

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