Soft skin coverings and touch sensors have emerged as a promising feature for robots that are both safer and more intuitive for human interaction, but they are expensive and difficult to make. A ...

Touch is the sense that brings us into direct contact with reality, revealing shape, texture, and resistance. Designing soft ...

Capacitive touch sensors are entirely in the domain of DIY, requiring little more than a carefully-chosen conductive surface and a microcontroller. This led [John Phillips] to ask why not embed such ...

There's growing evidence that 3D Touch will soon join the Dock connector and the headphone jack on Apple's scrap heap. Some people love it, others forget about it. But however you feel about 3D Touch, ...

Capacitive touch sensors have made homes i n scores of MP3 players and mobile phones. Of course, the mobile arena is no longer the only bastion for these devices. Today, sensor technology has ...