The new robot hand has a sense of touch.

The new robot hand can touch objects and move them without cameras. The system can operate in complete darkness and the difference between this new robot hand and the traditional systems is that the robot hand has a sense of touch. That sense is connected with machine learning. And the hand learns things that a regular person spends a year in one hour. 

This new robot hand can be the pathfinder for next-generation robotics with a sense of touch. Robots with that kind of thing might be more like humans. If a human-looking robot operates on the streets and visits shops and makes that kind of thing, it requires a sense of touch. If somebody touches that robt, it would recognize that thing, 

Robots with a sense of touch are interesting in many ways. They can operate in complete darkness without lasers, radars, and sonars. And that makes those robots stealthy. Because the passive sense of touch doesn't send any kind of signals, that system can move in darkness without sending any kind of sounds or unnecessary signals. 

"Using a sense of touch, a robot hand can manipulate in the dark, or in difficult lighting conditions. Credit: Columbia University ROAM Lab". (ScitechDaily.com/Columbia Engineers Create Highly Dexterous Human-Like Robot Hand That Can Operate in the Dark)

"Machine learning algorithms process the data from the tactile sensors to produce coordinated finger movement patterns for manipulation. Credit: Columbia University ROAM Lab" (ScitechDaily.com/Columbia Engineers Create Highly Dexterous Human-Like Robot Hand That Can Operate in the Dark)

"A dexterous robot hand equipped with five tactile fingers. One of the fingers is shown here with the outermost “skin” layer removed, to show the internal structure. Credit: Columbia University ROAM Lab" (ScitechDaily.com/Columbia Engineers Create Highly Dexterous Human-Like Robot Hand That Can Operate in the Dark)

The new robots with a sense of touch can also operate in narrow or dirty places. That means they are less vulnerable when they are covered by motor oil or some other dirt. But the passive sense of touch is one thing that can make many things safer. That thing can be connected with VR-based systems. And if it's connected to the brain. That allows it to send that sense remotely to the user. 

Machine learning makes that kind of system effective. Machine learning can operate independently. Or human users can make the movement series that the machine hand requires using data gloves. Then those series are stored in the memory of those systems. 

The sense of touch could be a practical tool in machines, security systems, and things like space suits and gloves. It allows the system to send that sense remotely to the human brain. And the user can feel the same thing that the robot feels. 

But what would you make with a car that has a sense of touch? That thing can decrease the damage while the car is driving in the parking lot. If a car touches another car the system will stop it. 

Things like futuristic nuclear submarines might have "skin" that feels the touch. That thing denies the ability to connect something like transmitters or detonators to the submarine's body. The sense of touch can also feel things like pressure impulses. 

In some visions, futuristic spacecraft also have a sense of touch. And that helps them to feel the micrometeorite impacts. If things like space suits' gloves have this thing, and they could transmit that signal to the human brain, that will make those things more flexible. Same way. When the operator operates robot hands by using data gloves the sense of touch can send the kinetic experience for the user.