Can Robots Feel? With Robert Shepherd and Ilayda Samilgil
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Encode More Information Than You Can Encode Electrically
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.
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