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Future medical visit: Intimate inspections using a soft robot finger

A Chinese research team has created a robotic finger that can identify malignancies by taking your pulse using sophisticated sensors.The pain of having a doctor's icy fingertips go across delicate skin is something most people can relate to. Or the pain of allowing the doctor to touch or otherwise inspect particularly delicate parts of your body, we may soon be able to say goodbye to these awkward doctor's office encounters. The goal of a new technology created by a group of researchers from Chi

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