Artificial Fingertip That 'Feels' Wins Harvard's Robotics Competition From: University of Bristol News - 01/18/2017 Researchers from the University of Bristol in the UK recently won Harvard University's international Soft Robotics competition for TacTip, an open source three-dimensionally-printed fingertip that can feel in a similar way to the human sense of touch. The robotic fingertip has a unique design in which a webcam is mounted inside the fingerprint to track internal pins that act like touch receptors inside human fingertips. "An artificial sense of touch is the key for enabling future robots to have human-like dexterity," says Bristol's Nathan Lepora. "Applications of artificial touch span from the future robotization of manufacturing, food production, and healthcare, to prosthetic hands that restore a sense of touch." Read the entire article and view a video (0:43) at: http://www.bris.ac.uk/news/2017/january/tactip.html Links: Bristol Robotics Laboratory http://www.brl.ac.uk/default.aspx Tactile Robotics Team http://www.brl.ac.uk/research/researchthemes/tactilerobotics.aspx TacTip: 3D-printed tactile sensing http://www.brl.ac.uk/research/researchthemes/tactilerobotics/3d-printedtactilesensing.aspx