Tokyo - ShokacCube is the world's first soft flexible touch sensor, exploiting the soft-touch properties of flexible polyurethane for humanoid androids, according to developers Touchence, a Tokyo University cooperative venture with industry. Touchence says the soft foam covering can detect changes in three dimensions. It does this because the sensor itself can change shape, and recognise different types of touch interactions, enabling it to distinguish between being pinched, pushed or rubbed. Such soft feel is of real benefit in therapeutic robots.
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