{"id":240259,"date":"2026-07-03T23:11:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T04:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/robots-can-now-see-touch-thanks-to-a-new-color-changing-tactile-sensor"},"modified":"2026-07-03T23:11:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T04:11:30","slug":"robots-can-now-see-touch-thanks-to-a-new-color-changing-tactile-sensor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/robots-can-now-see-touch-thanks-to-a-new-color-changing-tactile-sensor","title":{"rendered":"Robots can now \u2018see\u2019 touch thanks to a new color-changing tactile sensor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/robots-can-now-see-touch-thanks-to-a-new-color-changing-tactile-sensor2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Engineers at Queen Mary University of London have built a new color-changing tactile sensor, which allows robots to \u201csee\u201d and touch in real-time. The novel idea was invented by Giacomo Sasso, a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Engineering and Materials Science at Queen Mary University of London, and it works by transforming invisible forces into dynamic color patterns. This enables high-resolution maps of contact, strain and pressure to emerge instantly.<\/p>\n<p>The study is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.aee5236\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Science Advances.<\/p>\n<p>When pressure is applied to a soft sensing surface, the material produces spatially varying structural colors that can be captured immediately using a standard camera, removing the need for complex reconstruction algorithms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineers at Queen Mary University of London have built a new color-changing tactile sensor, which allows robots to \u201csee\u201d and touch in real-time. The novel idea was invented by Giacomo Sasso, a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Engineering and Materials Science at Queen Mary University of London, and it works by transforming invisible forces [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1965,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-mapping","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240259","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}