Feelings: a robot with a gentle touch https://www.mpg.de/18512185/haptics-robots-touch
In order to support people in therapy or in everyday life in the future, machines will need to be able to feel their world and to be capable of gently touching their human counterparts. Katherine J. Kuchenbecker and her team at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart are currently developing the technology required for this objective and are already testing sensitive robots for initial applications.
touch and are working on a teleoperated construction robot, as well as on a robotic hand