The BBC reports that two University of Nebraska professors have developed a sensor that matches the sensitivity of human touch. This is key to many interesting applications where touch is very helpful (as it is so hard-wired into human views and interactions) .
“The hope is that if you have the resolution close to a human finger in applications like minimal invasive surgery, where the surgeon could actually “touch” while he or she doing the procedure and tell if the tissue is cancerous or abnormal etc, that would increase the success of these surgeries.”
It’s interesting to imagine what will happen when these get even more sensitive than human fingers. Feeling details that were previously “invisible” could lead to all sorts of breakthroughs, both scientific and pleasurable.
(Via Weblogsky)
