HIRO III robot simulates touch for a vivid haptic 3D experience

We’re all satisfactorily living in the world full of devices with all kinds of interfaces, and there is still scope for a lot more that we already know, and some that we don’t know off. For the latter, engineers at the Gifu University, Japan, have devised a unique interface that clubs the facets of gesture-based experience with 3-D displays and haptic feedback. Christened HIRO III this is a haptic interface which combined with a 3D display simulates the feeling of real objects. The system requires the user to strap his fingertips to a robot hand, which effectively simulates the texture of the surfaces adding pressure to the on-screen interactions amounting to simulated feel of the surface. The system could have use in medicine and robotics, but I still wonder about its genuine applications, that till we are able to feel the difference ourselves.

hiro iii robot simulates touch

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