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Robotics researchRobot thumb with a sense of touch

Teaching robots to feel is quite complicated. Researchers in Tübingen and Stuttgart are experimenting with tactile grasping - in other words, haptics. Also a reality in the laboratories: micro-robots swimming in blood.

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Georg Martius (right), research group leader at the Max Planck Institute, and his doctoral student Huanbo Sun hold a robotic thumb that they developed together at the Institute
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Georg Martius (right), research group leader at the Max Planck Institute, and his doctoral student Huanbo Sun hold a robotic thumb that they developed together at the Institute

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