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Soft robotic hand ‘sees’ around corners to achieve human-like touch

A soft robotic hand designed to achieve human-like touch
Illustration comparing the FlexiRay sensor with human hand perception modalities and its application scenarios. It introduces the design inspiration, working principle, and layered structure. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-67148-y.

To reliably complete household chores, assemble products and tackle other manual tasks, robots should be able to adapt their manipulation strategies based on the objects they are working with, similarly to how humans leverage information they gain via the sense of touch. While humans attain tactile information via nerves in their skin and muscles, robots rely on sensors, devices that sense their surroundings and pick up specific physical signals.

Most robotic hands and grippers developed so far rely on visual-tactile senso...

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