Your Apple Watch uses photo plus esmography which shines light in measures of reflected light out. The tricorder measures everything that's going on in the body without cutting you open. We don't have to just use our sensor we confuse lots of different sensor information. That's part of the this is better than a tricorder without a doubt.
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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