[James Eckert] got his hands on a Freescale MPR121 capacitive touch sensor. The chip in question speaks I2C and senses up to twelve simultaneous capacitive sense electrodes; break-out boards are ...

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Amazon has recently introduced a new and exciting innovation in warehouse automation – a robot called Vulcan. This ...

Researchers have made a breakthrough that could pave the way for affordable, highly sensitive robotic touch. A team from ...

If you’re ever hunting for a touch sensor but can’t get your hands on one, [Alan Chatham’s] tutorial on simple DIY capacitive touch sensors might be just what you need to keep things moving ...

Researchers argue that the problem that has been lurking in the margins of many papers about touch sensors lies in the ... cheap robotic skins could allow robots to mimic human touch, allowing ...

Amazon has deployed over 750,000 robots to its fulfillment centers over the last decade or so, but now there's a new, shall ...

Instead, a passive rotatable clicky knob is simply stuck to the front of the display glass (diagram right) and one or more electrodes underneath interact with the display’s existing capacitive touch ...

According to the team, the advancement could help robots better detect ... contact preparation on sensor performance, the team hopes to ensure that future research in touch sensing and flexible ...

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Amazon has unveiled its first robot it says has a sense of touch that it calls a “fundamental leap forward in robotics”. Called Project Vulcan, the new robot has “force feedback sensors ...