All of us are familiar with the 5 traditional senses, but according to a recent study, we may actually have a new sense right ...

In laboratories from Brazil to Munich, researchers are learning to grab matter with sound alone, sculpting ultrasonic waves ...

Humans can detect buried objects without touching them, sensing faint pressure ripples in sand. Scientists are calling this ...

Engineers at the University of Minnesota have developed a new system that can move objects without making physical contact. The technique involves ultrasound waves acting on specialized surfaces to ...

A scientist from ETH Zurich called Marcel Schuck is working on the development of a robotic gripper that can manipulate small and fragile objects without having to touch them. The technology that the ...

A recent study from researchers at Queen Mary University of London and University College London has drawn attention after several international outlets reported that humans might sense objects before ...

Unauthorized touching has been in the news quite a bit. But many of us engage in a different form when we disobey the "Do Not Touch" signs at the museum. Unauthorized touching has been in the news ...

The ultimate goal to making virtual reality feel more like reality is letting users physically touch non-existent objects in a VR world. Until we figure out the technology behind Star Trek’s Holodecks ...

Over at Intel’s R&D fair, Wired got to play with a robot hand that is able to sense an object it’s about to come in contact with before actually touching it. Using electrolocation, the fingertips of ...

Hands: gesture in Renaissance portraiture -- Windows: thresholds of experience -- Boxes: intimate tactile values -- Chests: unpacking forzieri and the reclining nude -- Trays: deschi da parto as ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has always warned that "it may be possible" to become infected with coronavirus by touching contaminated surfaces or objects. It just "does not spread ...