Li Na of China prepares to receive a serve from Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia during their women's singles final match at the Australian Open 2014 tennis tournament in Melbourne Jan. 25, 2014 Petar ...

Women have a more sensitive touch than men, but not because of their gender. It’s just that their fingers tend to be smaller. “We now understand that this sex difference is not actually a ‘sex effect’ ...

To develop a more human-like robotic gripper, it is necessary to provide sensing capabilities to the fingers. However, conventional sensors compromise the mechanical properties of soft robots. Now, ...

December 16, 2009 Canadian researchers say part of the reason is that smaller fingers have greater sweat pore density. That's important because fingertip receptors which cluster around seat pore bases ...