Autodesk research is developing a “Magic Finger” that turns any surface into a touch interface by shifting the touch technology from the surface to the wearer’s finger.

A sense of touch This bionic finger uses touch to “see” inside human tissue, electronics Subsurface tactile tomography can detect details beneath a material's surface.

A Sensorized Multicurved Robot Finger with Data-driven Touch Sensing via Overlapping Light Signals. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2020; 1 DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2020.2975578 ...

Autodesk Magic Finger Enables a Touch Pad on Any Surface by Joshua Gulick — Tuesday, October 16, 2012, 10:50 AM EDT Comments ...

Jason Huggins sells a robot that mimics the touch of the human finger. But it’s not what you think. Known as Tapster, his contraption is a means of testing new software applications on the Apple ...

Cypress Semiconductor is showing off a new prototype 14-inch TrueTouch capacitive touchscreen that is able to actively track any number of finger touches. The screen is as accurate with ten ...