Robotic Glove Gives You The Sensation Of Touching Boobs

You see some scientist in a white lab coat with his hand in a machine and a geeky smile on his face...he's feeling boobs.

This weird machine provides geeky scientist's, who could normally never get a date, a gateway to second base. It's like the Holy Grail of Science, except a little more squishy.

So Japanese (of course) researcher have developed a robotic glove like device that can simulate the sensation of feeling up a girl's breasts. Now before you write this off as purely the creation of lonely scientists, there is actually a serious need for it. Getting enough volunteers for medical examination practice is simply not possible, especially when students need to be able to detect lumps in various areas of the body. This haptic feedback device means that one device could replicate limitless situations of lump size and location without the need for hundreds of different silicone models or volunteers who are suffering cancer.

Researcher hope that it can be used as a training device for medical students to become skilled in breast examinations among other exams that require feeling body parts. Ok, now we understand the desperate need for this device, so how does it work?

The device makes use of haptic feedback that can simulate realistic tactile sensations in each individual fingertip and hence why the researchers, from Gifu University in Japan, have dubbed their invention a "Multi-Fingered Haptic Interface Robot." It basically constrains the motions of your fingers and hands to replicate various softness and although there is no physical model to look at while performing the hands on examination, the students would watch a 3D model on screen or even make use of virtual reality glasses...you know to get a more realistic view of the boobs. 

The researchers showed off their invention at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Hong Kong. The IEEE website explains:

"To simulate softness, the sheet of gel is stretched by two tiny rollers with a gap between them, so that a strip of gel is suspended in the air. Your finger rests on this strip. By using a motor and a set of gears to move the rollers, the tension on the strip of gel can be increased or decreased. Increasing the tension (pulling the strip tighter) makes it feel harder under your finger, while decreasing the tension (letting the strip get looser) makes it feel softer."

Fingertips are incredibly sensitive and detect the slightest of sensations so the team certainly had a challenge when it came to simulating tough and softness. In particular, simulating the softness of objects has provided a big challenge, because our fingertips are very sensitive and produced nuanced sensations that are hard to replicate. Basically they just want to let you know how hard they worked to set up the boob-machine.

A kind of scary thought is what happens when these geeks figure out a way to simulate a home run? 

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