Andrew Wade

C2I 2020 Wildcard winner: Magic touch

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The inaugural C2I Wildcard winner brings together a host of cutting-edge technologies to deliver a truly extraordinary robotic platform. Andrew Wade reports.

Category: Wildcard

Project: Tactile Telerobot

Partners: Shadow Robot Company with ANA Holdings, Tangible Research, SynTouch and HaptX

Since its inception, C2I has attracted many entries from exceptional collaborations that haven’t quite fit neatly into our traditional award categories. In light of this, The Engineer created a Wildcard prize, and our inaugural winner is a fine example of the type of multi-faceted collaboration that inspired the category’s birth.

Incorporating groundbreaking robotics, haptics and telepresence technology, the Tactile Telerobot is a collaboration between Shadow Robot Company (UK), HaptX, SynTouch, and Tangible Research (all US), funded and facilitated by ANA Holdings, the parent company of Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA). The result is the world’s first haptic telerobot hand, capable of mimicking movements and transmitting touch from the other side of the planet, and potentially one day even between planets.

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