A robotic hand with vibration sensors on its fingertips can pick up apples and oranges with just the right amount of force
Anway S. Pimpalkar et al. (2024)/CC BY 4.0
A robotic The human skin-inspired hand can sense the size of an object with the touch of a single digit and how much force is required to grasp it before the rest of the hand can reach it.
Grasping an object firmly enough to secure it, but not break it, is something humans learn at an early age, but robots continue to struggle with.
