A new 3D technology the size of a Scrabble board may be the key to sending physical touch, like holding the hand of a loved one, over long distances.
Researchers outside of CU Boulder have already developed similar devices. However, this tablet is faster, quieter and takes up less room. The robotic machinery within it can activate as much as 50 times per second.
The idea for the technology developed out of a different project to create synthetic organs. CU Boulder researchers secured funding in 2017 from the National Science Foundation to develop sTISSUE — organs that behave and feel like real organs but are made out of silicone-like materials. In developing that technology, the researchers came up with the idea of a tabletop device.
The innovation also builds off of soft, flexible robots created by researchers at CU Boulder called Hydraulically Amplified Self-Healing Electrostatic actuators. Now, researchers are working to find a way to shrink the actuators to increase the resolution of the display, which could do things like generate braille on a phone screen.
“You could imagine arranging these sensing and actuating cells into any number of different shapes and combinations,” Mantas Naris, co-lead author of the paper and CU Boulder engineering doctoral student, said in a news release. “There’s really no limit to what these technologies could, ultimately, lead to.”
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