Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have demonstrated a display technology that renders dynamic graphics that can be both seen and physically felt, according to a new study published in data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.adv1383″ data-url=”https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.adv1383″ target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link”>Science Robotics. The work introduces thin optotactile surfaces populated with millimeter-scale pixels that rise into perceptible bumps when struck by brief pulses of projected light.
The project began with a simple question UCSB Professor Yon Visell posed in 2021: could the same light that draws an image also generate a…
