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<h1>Coverage</h1>

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<li><a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2012/12/03/highlights-from-scott-kirsner-innovation-economy-blog/yX3xDohweOjSnzYbrcYVXN/story.html">Boston Globe - better fingers may be key to better robots</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.boston.com/business/technology/innoeco/2012/11/mit_spin-out_robot_rebuilt_wan.html">Boston Globe - MIT spin-out Robot Rebuilt wants to give robotic hands a better sense of touch</a></li>
<li><a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57557068-1/building-a-sensitive-robot-and-perhaps-a-future-politician/">CNET - building a sensitive robot, and a future politician</a></li>
<li><a href="http://phys.org/news/2012-12-robot-rebuilt-wine-serving-video.html">PHYS.ORG - Robot Rebuilt get a grip on wine-serving robot</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gizmag.com/robot-rebuilt-sensitive-robotic-hands/25263/">gizmag - MIT spin-off working on sensitive robotic hands</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.redstarunion.com/red_star_events/mothers-of-invention-robots/">RedStar Union talk</a></li>
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  <h2>Sensitive Robotics</h2>

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Put simply, we follow a <i>touch-first</i> approach to robotics, where
intimate, hands-on sensing no longer plays a distant second to
remote, hands-off sensors such as vision and laser scanners.
This simple idea, first enunciated in a 
<a href="http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/36371">2007 thesis</a>,
is a breath of fresh air that turns conventional robotics on its head.
In 2013, the first
<a href="http://users.wpi.edu/~etorresj/RSSSensitiveRobotics/">Workshop on Sensitive Robotics</a> was held at the
<a href="http://www.roboticsconference.org/">Robotics Science and Systems</a> conference in Berlin.
It was exciting to see how far touch-first-ers have come!

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