As we interact with the world, we feel it when we touch things. The information we get from touch sensations helps us carry out many daily activities, from typing on a keyboard to handling food.

Imagine a world where robots can feel, just like you and me. It’s not a scene from a sci-fi movie, but the exciting reality that Meta, the tech giant formerly known as Facebook, is working tirelessly ...

Haptic perception and dynamic touch encompass the sophisticated processes through which the human sensorimotor system interprets object properties by means of active manipulation. This modality relies ...

Meta made several major announcements for robotics and embodied AI systems this week. This includes releasing benchmarks and artifacts for better understanding and interacting with the physical world.

Every hug, every handshake, every dexterous act engages and requires touch perception, and so understanding the molecular basis of touch is important. But to date, scientists had only known about one ...

Every hug, every handshake, every dexterous act engages and requires touch perception. Therefore, it is essential to understand the molecular basis of touch. “Until now, we had known that the ion ...

Professor Gregory Gerling, shown with Ph.D. alumnus Chang Xu, and his students develop tools and methods to scientifically describe our sense of touch. Touch is a critical part of how we interact with ...

You may scarcely notice it, but much of what you do every day requires your brain to engage in perceptual learning. To safely ...

Touch is a vital sense in human survival and experience, not for just how it informs personal connections but as an important early warning system for identifying harm. Yet not all touch is equal.

Besides memory loss, many people with AD also lose their sensitivity to touch. A new study attributes this to a surprising source: neurofibrillary tangles within the spinal cord. In Nature ...