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Shedding some “Insight” into a new haptic sensory technology.

Researchers say giving machines the ability to feel surfaces could make robots more dexterous and improve prosthetic hands.

In a paper published on February 23, 2022 in Nature Machine Intelligence, a team of scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) introduce a robust soft haptic sensor named "Insight" that uses computer vision and a deep neural network to accurately estimate where objects come into contact with the sensor and how large the applied forces are.

A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) present a powerful soft haptic sensor called “Insight” that utilizes computer vision and a deep neural network to exactly approximate the place where objects come into contact with the sensor and the size of the applied forces.