Jia-Bin Huang, assistant professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a faculty member at the Discovery Analytics Center, has received a Google Faculty Research Award ...

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Disney Research, a part of The Walt Disney Co. focused on technical innovation, has developed a low-cost, unobtrusive method of using RFID to understand how humans interact with objects. By monitoring ...

A new study suggests young children are more vocal when interacting with toys and household items, highlighting their importance for developing language skills. Researchers have found infants are ...

Humans and objects develop and maintain relationships directly through material interactions, transforming interpretations of the world. The sound of crunching leaves, the smell of home-cooked food, ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Human skin is remarkably complex, containing an array of receptors that provide detailed sensory information about our environment through the sense of touch. One unique feature ...

A team of engineers designed and developed a novel humanoid hand that may be able to help human-robotic interactions. Need a robot with a soft touch? A team of Michigan State University engineers has ...

Despite rapid robotic automation advancements, most systems struggle to adapt their pre-trained movements to dynamic environments with objects of varying stiffness or weight. To tackle this challenge, ...