Despite how advanced robots have become, getting them to feel the way humans do is an incredibly complex challenge.

Its been five years of touch starvation. I’ll probably have some more years of it. I’m not handling this well. Lisbeth continued, “I feel like I’m dying from touch starvation, y’all. I don’t get hugs.

Winning the 2024 election was only the beginning — the Trump effect is now sweeping the globe. From Canada to the United Kingdom and continental Europe, left-liberal governments are tottering while ...

If you want a good display and interface device for an embedded project, it’s hard to look past an old smartphone. After all, you’ve got an excellent quality screen and capacitive touch interface all ...

Built around a performance of immense care and delicacy by Kathleen Chalfant, Sarah Friedland's debut feature is a precise, funny and deeply moving portrait of a woman adjusting to assisted living.

It could help make interactions between robots and humans smoother and more intuitive. Even the most capable robots aren’t great at sensing human touch; you typically need a computer science degree or ...

Jeff Ewing is a critic, entertainment journalist, interviewer, and screenwriter in LA with a life-long love of horror and film history. He has an M.S. in Sociology from the University of Oregon, and a ...

An Icelandic widower revisits London, the site of his first romance, in this film from Baltasar Kormakur. By Beatrice Loayza When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our ...

Baltasar Kormákur's adaptation of Ólafur Ólafsson's novel joins a small, rarified group of great films made about the pandemic. It’s against this backdrop of uncertainty that Kristofer (Egill Ólafsson ...

Baltasar Kormakur directs the story of a widower with early-onset dementia who embarks on a cross-continental trip to find his soulmate during the pandemic in this weepie filled with humanity and hope ...

Thought experiment: What would life be like if you did not have a sense of touch? Our skin is our largest sense organ, constituting 16 to 18 percent of adult body weight, and we rely on it heavily in ...