Haptic Skin: A virtual sense of touch

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Virtual reality focuses on sight and sound, but there are very few technologies that tackle touch, until now. Researchers at Northwestern University have created a flexible ‘haptic skin’ which hopes to provide a virtual sense of touch.

Read the paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1687-0

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