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Reach Out and Cyber-touch

Computer scientists are studying how the sense of touch can be achieved in the virtual world. Recently, scientists at MIT actually achieved the first trans-atlantic touch  ? through computers. Rachel Gotbaum reports from Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Computer scientists are studying how the sense of touch can be achieved in the virtual world. Recently, scientists at MIT actually achieved the first trans-atlantic touch  ? through computers. Rachel Gotbaum reports from Cambridge, Massachusetts.