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New glove-like device mimics sense of touch – Science Daily
Engineers have invented a soft wearable device which simulates the sense of touch and has wide potential for medical, industrial and entertainment applications.
What if you could touch a loved one during a video call — particularly in today’s social distancing era of COVID-19 — or pick up and handle a virtual tool in a video game?Pending user tests and funding to commercialise the new technology, these ideas could become reality in a couple of years after UNSW Sydney engineers developed a new haptic device which recreates the sense of touch.
Haptic technology mimics the experience of touch by stimulating localised areas of the skin in ways that are s…
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