There are a couple of different ways we can do this one of them being we can send the information back via a different light pattern so our sensors glow. Another thing we can do is put a little vibrotactile thing in the pod like I said this has an electrical portion too which is located depending on the environment. And what you're doing is incredible but now is there a dialogue between your shoulder? That's it that's what I'm sayingso look I gotta watch you now. and you're this part of your rotator boom"
Can you give a robot a sense of touch? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly, learn about soft robotics, sensors, and understanding human physiology with co-founders of Organic Robotics Corp, Professor Robert Shepherd and Ilayda Samilgil.
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