While exploring a digitally represented object through artificially created sense of touch ... parameters that felt like petting a cat or touching an apple, key, towel or toast -- while exploring ...

(In fact, the popular kids’ cartoon even appears in the background ... Tracy Pizzo Frey, senior AI adviser for Common Sense Media, recently testified at a California State Assembly hearing ...

Unlike vibrating motors that simply buzz in different patterns, this tech addresses how the sense of touch is realized ... and slide faster than when touching corduroy or burlap," he said.