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Today's robots must be precisely programmed to  (26)  a car part or even help perform surgeries. But when it comes to  (27)  an object they have not touched before, such as an egg, they often fail. Now, engineers have come up with a solution to overcome that limitation. Artificial Fingertips like TacTip could enable robots to  (28)  objects of all shapes and sizes without such programming.

The researchers are optimistic that TacTip will shrink. Cameras and microphones are getting smaller all the time, and 3D printing techniques are enabling thinner layers. They believe that such smaller devices might approximate human “feel” even more because they would be able to  (29)  finer textures and thus be more dexterous. This research has explored how the skin's nerve endings  (30)  what they sense to get the fingers to catch a ball slipping through our fingers or pick up an origami crane without crushing it.