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Wednesday, October 30, 2002
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/10/2002103001t.htm Using High-Speed Links, Researchers Transmit Sense of Touch Across the Atlantic FLORENCE OLSEN Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology teamed up with colleagues at University College London on Tuesday to demonstrate how a sense of touch can be carried across an ocean over high-speed networks. In a demonstration organized for a meeting of the Internet2 consortium, researchers completed what may be the first trans-Atlantic task involving the use of "haptic" -- or touch-signal -- devices attached to a robotic arm and a computer. Two researchers, one at MIT in Boston and the other in London, joined forces to pick up a virtual box displayed on a computer screen. Each was holding a stylus attached to a robotic arm, and by all accounts, each could feel the tug and pull of the other person's grasp....
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