A newly developed soft robotic finger with a sophisticated sense of touch could one day help your doctor perform routine office examinations, a new study suggests. The finger can take a person's ...

It can also type, so the robo-doctor can heal you and write legibly Robot hands are commonplace, but their sense of touch is crude compared to that of a human. A design proposed by a group of ...

An ultra-sensitive robotic “finger” can take the pulse of doctors' patients and even check for abnormal lumps. The soft robotic device with a sophisticated sense of touch can perform "routine ...