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Cornell researchers have created a low-cost way to enable soft robots to detect a range of physical human interactions, from pats to punches to hugs, by using an off-the-shelf USB camera that “captures” the shadows made by hand gestures on the robot’s skin and physical contact.

Research project by the Cornell Human-Robot Collaboration and Companionship Lab [https://hrc2.io/].
Robot prototype designed by the Cornell Collective Embodied Intelligence Lab [https://cei.ece.cornell.edu/].

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1830471, PI: Hadas Kress-Gazit, co-PIs: Guy Hoffman and Kirstin Petersen. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.