Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Prog Brain Res. 2011;192:129-44. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53355-5.00009-9.
Haptics can be defined as the characterization and identification of objects by voluntary exploration and somatosensory feedback. It requires multimodal sensing, motor dexterity, and high levels of cognitive integration with prior experience and fundamental concepts of self versus external world. Humans have unique haptic capabilities that enable tool use. Experimental animals have much poorer capabilities that are difficult to train and even more difficult to study because they involve rapid, subtle, and variable movements. Robots can now be constructed with biomimetic sensing and dexterity, so they may provide a suitable platform on which to test theories of haptics. Robots will need to embody such theories if they are ever going to realize the long-standing dream of working alongside humans using the same tools and objects.
触觉可以被定义为通过自愿探索和本体感觉反馈来描述和识别物体。它需要多模态感知、运动灵巧性以及与先前经验和自我与外部世界基本概念的高度认知整合。人类具有独特的触觉能力，能够使用工具。实验动物的能力要差得多，而且很难训练，更难以研究，因为它们涉及到快速、微妙和多变的运动。现在可以用仿生传感和灵巧性来制造机器人，因此它们可能是一个合适的平台，可以用来测试触觉理论。如果机器人要实现与人类一起使用相同工具和物体的长期梦想，就需要体现这些理论。
