{"id":156132,"date":"2026-08-16T04:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T04:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156132"},"modified":"2026-08-16T04:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T04:00:10","slug":"chinas-electric-eel-sensor-allows-robots-to-feel-an-object-without-touching-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156132","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s \u2018electric eel\u2019 sensor allows robots to feel an object without touching it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostElectric eels hunt in pitch-black, murky waters by generating electric fields around their bodies. Now, Chinese scientists have mimicked this natural radar, giving robots the ability to \u201cfeel\u201d objects without making physical contact.<br \/>\n\u201cWe want the machine to sense an approaching target \u2013 distinguish its material and surface condition \u2013 before any physical contact,\u201d said Zhang Weiqiang, a professor at Xidian University, in a video interview last week.<br \/>\nTheir work was published last month in the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3364015\/chinas-electric-eel-sensor-allows-robots-feel-object-without-touching-it?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostElectric eels hunt in pitch-black, murky waters by generating electric fields around their bodies. Now, Chinese scientists have mimicked this natural radar, giving robots&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156132"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}