Science Fellow spotlight: Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
By: Lindsay Borthwick | Posted: 20 October 2011
This afternoon, Katherine J. Kuchenbecker, the first member of PopTech’s sophomore class of Science and Public Leadership Fellows to present at this year’s conference, talked about her efforts to make robotic systems more touchy feely. “If the sense of touch is so useful to humans, why are there so few human-computer interfaces that exploit it?” she asked the crowd, citing the numerous tricky manual feats we regularly complete, such as assembling a coffee table from IKEA.