How do you scientifically go from knowing as our fingers can touch and sense to being able to interpret, touch and replicate it for one of your technologies? It's very basic. We don't, we cannot do it nearly as well as organisms do. One of the reasons we use optical systems in my group instead of electrical ones is that you can encode more information optically than you can electrically. Hence the urge to lay fiber optics for, for media communications.
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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