From prostheses to machines for performing dangerous jobs: the applications of touch studies

The sense of touch was greatly degraded during the pandemic: physical contact between people has ceased – just think of the handshake we no longer give – and even online purchases have deprived us of the possibility of touching an object before buying it. .

So maybe this is one of the suggestions that prompted the Swedish Academy to award the Nobel Prize for Medicine 2021 to David Julius e Ardem Patapoutian precisely for having discovered the sensors that allow you to feel the heat, cold and pressure, at the basis of the sense of touch.