making critical breakthroughs in “programmable fabric”
Programmable Matter: A Critical Breakthrough For Robot Hands
From Forbes.com
We’ve digitized sight, and we’ve digitized sound. But touch, one of the most important human senses, has remained stubbornly physical and analog: almost impossible to replicate in machines. A new Princeton-based startup that just raised a $1.75 million pre-seed round says that gap may finally be closing. It’s built “programmable fabric” which in some ways surpasses the sensitivity of human touch, and offers huge opportunities for remote sensing, touch-sensitive VR training and humanoid robots.
“Sensetics is technology that is able to capture touch realistically at resolutions that exceed that of the nerve endings in our fingertips and take that data, digitize it,” Sensetics CEO Adam Hopkins told me on the TechFirst podcast. “Tor example I could touch something here and you could experience what I’m touching realistically where you are … half a thousand miles apart.”
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