Testing of an assistive robot system for haptic exploration of objects.

CONCLUSION: Participants performed a previously unidentified EP, "tapping", in the Tech condition. Enclosure was not possible with the robot end effector, but tapping afforded the required perceptual information. Adults' perceptual comparisons were always accurate and they predominantly performed the optimum EP in both conditions. Even when children performed the optimum EP with the system, their answers were less accurate than with manual exploration. Most gave the correct answer, except for hardness, which was likely due to mechanical flexibility in the robotic system. PMID: 30148684 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Assistive Technology - Category: Rehabilitation Tags: Assist Technol Source Type: research