{"id":176106,"date":"2023-11-15T21:24:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T03:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/artificial-sensor-similar-to-a-human-fingerprint-that-can-recognize-fine-fabric-textures"},"modified":"2023-11-15T21:24:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T03:24:57","slug":"artificial-sensor-similar-to-a-human-fingerprint-that-can-recognize-fine-fabric-textures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/artificial-sensor-similar-to-a-human-fingerprint-that-can-recognize-fine-fabric-textures","title":{"rendered":"Artificial sensor similar to a human fingerprint that can recognize fine fabric textures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/artificial-sensor-similar-to-a-human-fingerprint-that-can-recognize-fine-fabric-textures3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An artificial sensory system that is able to recognize fine textures\u2014such as twill, corduroy and wool\u2014with a high resolution, similar to a human finger, is <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-023-42722-4\">reported<\/a> in a <i>Nature Communications<\/i> paper. The findings may help improve the subtle tactile sensation abilities of robots and human limb prosthetics and could be applied to virtual reality in the future, the authors suggest.<\/p>\n<p>Humans can gently slide a finger on the surface of an object and identify it by capturing both static pressure and high-frequency vibrations. Previous approaches to create artificial tactile <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/sensors\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">sensors<\/a> for sensing physical stimuli, such as pressure, have been limited in their ability to identify real-world objects upon touch, or they rely on multiple sensors. Creating a <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/real-time\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">real-time<\/a> artificial sensory system with high spatiotemporal resolution and sensitivity has been challenging.<\/p>\n<p>Chuan Fei Guo and colleagues present a flexible slip sensor that mimics the features of a human fingerprint to enable the system to recognize small features on surface textures when touching or sliding the sensor across the surface. The authors integrated the sensor onto a prosthetic human hand and added machine learning to the system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An artificial sensory system that is able to recognize fine textures\u2014such as twill, corduroy and wool\u2014with a high resolution, similar to a human finger, is reported in a Nature Communications paper. The findings may help improve the subtle tactile sensation abilities of robots and human limb prosthetics and could be applied to virtual reality in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,6,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}