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Robotic Sense of Touch
Aryabhata writes "As per a BBC article, US scientists have created a device that could one day pave the way for robotic hands mimicking human touch. The research team from University of Nebraska in Lincoln hopes to apply this to aid surgery by allowing surgeons to feel the tissue they are operating on. This could help surgeons in distinguishing cancerous or abnormal tissue etc. To demonstrate the device the scientists tried the instrument on a one cent coin and the sensor revealed the wrinkles in President Lincoln's clothing and the letters TY in liberty."
one step closer to our desired sex slavebots!
Since this appears to be the official joke thread for the article, I'll throw in my two cents:
the sensor revealed the wrinkles in President Lincoln's clothing and the letters TY in liberty.
I'm glad they've got a device that can still detect some of our liberty. I was starting to get worried.
--MarkusQ
What about prosthetics that could actually feel? If I lost an arm or a leg or something, I'd pay top dollar not to lose my sense of touch.
I make websites and stuff. Buy one.
Because "pain" protects you from yourself damaging your body
If you can't feel there's something wrong and abnormal with your body (broken leg, biting on tongue, finger stuck in a blender, ...) you wont act to protect it. Not damaging yourself wouldn't be a "reflex" anymore, but a contious process with not always the highest priority. Like an Interrupt request versus an API-call.
I think we can keep recursing like this until someone returns 1
"the wrinkles in President Lincoln's clothing"
It's too bad the mint couldn't have ironed his clothes before casting him in metal...
We're all hypocrites. We all have hidden parts, it's the contrast between them that make us more a hypocrite than others