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Penn Haptics and Robotics Demonstration

Published: July 11, 2011, 2:26 p.m.

Penn Engineering students demonstrate state-of-the-art haptic human-computer and human-machine interfaces. The PR2 robot finds objects on a table via tactile scanning. A smart "seeing eye" cane alerts users to overhead and waist-high obstacles. Students demo a game of virtual catch with a virtual ball that you can feel in your hand.