Touch is the sense that brings us into direct contact with reality, revealing shape, texture, and resistance. Designing soft ...

Engineers have created VoxeLite, the first wearable haptic device capable of matching the sensitivity of the human fingertip.

The Tactile Internet represents a transformative approach to connectivity, enabling the remote transmission of touch and actuation data in near real-time. By integrating haptic communication, this ...

A screenshot from the early PlayStation DualSense Edge controller demos. Sony has submitted an all-new patent that leverages a device's baseline haptic vibration motors to communicate various messages ...

The requirement to share information and communicate effectively via radio or other equipment during natural disasters, fires, crimes or catastrophes has only increased for police officers, ...

A future Apple Pencil could give more information to the user wielding it using haptic feedback, with Apple examining ways to create a shear force to physically inform users of touch events, via a ...

Engineers have invented a soft wearable device which simulates the sense of touch and has wide potential for medical, industrial and entertainment applications. What if you could touch a loved one ...

The day's not too far off that a smartphone, instead of providing on-screen driving directions, could guide someone to her destination with a little nudge. Literally. For about the past decade, ...

More than 330 meters below the surface of the Mediterranean Sea, OceanOne, a humanoid submersible developed by Stanford University’s Robotics Lab, closed in on its target: the Aléria, a 2nd-Century ...

Having another person help you with a simple physical task often seems to be more trouble than it's worth. However, researchers at Northwestern University have found that in some cases, pairs perform ...