What will Robot Finger find in your cavities?
Contemplate the sound of writhing servos muted by a generous slathering of petroleum jelly
Image: USTC/Hongbo Wang
A "robot finger" could soon be performing routine physical patient examinations, reports New Atlas, and yes, in addition to surface work, it's going inside "dark, warm places" for diagnostic purposes.
Their BSF, short for bioinspired soft finger, consists of a bending actuation body and integrated multimodal sensing. It has a finge…
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