Force Detection News Today

On Tuesday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 60 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. In this particular report we briefly cover two patents. The first relates to Apples future autonomous vehicle and the second relates to an ultrasonic water-agnostic touch detection sensor.

The Toyota Research Institute (TRI) is helping to accelerate the field of soft robotics by sharing the design source files and full build instruction for its innovative domestic robot hands. Today, any research institution or aspiring roboticist can visit punyo.tech and build their own Punyo Soft Bubble Gripper. TRI Soft...

Apple has Advanced their 10-year VR Gloves Project by introducing a new Ultrasonic Detection System   Apple has been working on a VR gloves project since at least 2011. Patently Apple has posted at least four reports covering the progress of this invention (01, 02, 03 & 04). Yesterday the US Patent & Trademark Office published another patent application from Apple relating to this project titled "Ultrasonic Force Detection."     Apples patent application relates to ultrasonic force detectio...

Apple is again researching gloves that, in part, resemble those worn by Tom Cruise in Minority Report Maybe it didnt help that Apple sometimes called it Force Touch, and sometimes 3D Touch. But whatever the reason, not enough people were even aware that you could press hard on a device to control it. So Apple ultimately removed Force Touch, and if you knew what it was, you missed having it. It definitely feels like a bad move losing it from Apple Watch and so requiring more taps and swipes to a...