New humanoid robot has skin that can feel your touch. No, its not for sex.
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Tactile "skin" on humanoids like Gene.01 pushes robots from scripted motion toward social and collaborative interaction — they can now respond to being touched, not just to vision and force sensors. Any operation designing human-robot workflows should start assuming touch-aware robots will be viable in the next planning cycle, especially in care, retail, and hospitality pilots.
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