Unauthorized touching has been in the news quite a bit. But many of us engage in a different form when we disobey the "Do Not Touch" signs at the museum. Unauthorized touching has been in the news ...

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have reported that humans can detect buried objects through sand without ...

Engineers at the University of Minnesota have developed a new system that can move objects without making physical contact. The technique involves ultrasound waves acting on specialized surfaces to ...

A recent study from researchers at Queen Mary University of London and University College London has drawn attention after several international outlets reported that humans might sense objects before ...

A scientist from ETH Zurich called Marcel Schuck is working on the development of a robotic gripper that can manipulate small and fragile objects without having to touch them. The technology that the ...

Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have had a breakthrough in giving a robot the human-like ability to determine what an object looks like just by ...

Over at Intel’s R&D fair, Wired got to play with a robot hand that is able to sense an object it’s about to come in contact with before actually touching it. Using electrolocation, the fingertips of ...

The ultimate goal to making virtual reality feel more like reality is letting users physically touch non-existent objects in a VR world. Until we figure out the technology behind Star Trek’s Holodecks ...