Abstract
From Washington, D.C., NewsRx journali sts report that a patent application by the inventors Adelson, Edward (Wincheste r, MA, US); Liu, Sandra (Cambridge, MA, US); Zamora, Leonardo (Brighton, MA, US) , filed on March 13, 2024, was made available online on September 19, 2024. The patent's assignee is Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massa chusetts, United States). News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors: "The sense of touch contributes to the dexterity of human m anipulation, especially in cases where high precision is desirable. The complex ensemble of mechanoreceptors in the human hand provides extremely rich tactile s ensory signals. These sensory signals encode information such as contact force a nd contact shape and such signals can be used to detect complex state transition s such as making or breaking contact or the occurrence of slippage between the f inger and the grasped object.
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