Bumps and lines make up touch-based technology such as Braille. But the human sense of touch is keen enough to detect differences that are much smaller. Research by Charles Dhong and his group at the ...

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have reported that humans can detect buried objects through sand without ...

There’s a nightmarish scene in Guillermo del Toro’s 2006 movie Pan’s Labyrinth in which we are confronted by a sinister humanoid creature called the Pale Man. With no eyes in his monstrous, hairless ...

Stronger state funding for accessibility makes ancient cultural heritage easier to grasp by people who cannot see it ...

Skoltech researchers in collaboration with Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Lomonosov Moscow State University, and Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry of the Russian ...

A new approach to simulating biologically inspired robotics can cut the design and training of tactile robots from eighteen months to two weeks, new research suggests.

Many video games are designed with the aim to transport the player into an alternative world so that they feel like they are genuinely a part of it. Game developers often use sensorial, full-body ...