A Glove Powered by Soft Robotics to Interact with Virtual Reality Environments

Wednesday, May 31, 2017 - 14:01 in Mathematics & Economics

Engineers at UC San Diego are using soft robotics technology to make light, flexible gloves that allow users to feel tactile feedback when they interact with virtual reality environments. The researchers used the gloves to realistically simulate the tactile feeling of playing a virtual piano keyboard.

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