Practical Smart Device Design and Construction: Understanding Smart Technologies and How to Build Them Yourself

© Christopher Harrold 2020

C. HarroldPractical Smart Device Design and Constructionhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5614-5_7

7. Touch, See, Hear, Smell, Taste

Christopher Harrold¹ 

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Denver, CO, USA

 

Alongside the rise of the programmable MCU and the proliferation of miniature computing devices has come the other required piece of smart devices. Since even the earliest days of scientific pursuits, there has been a goal to build human senses into automated systems. Even as early as the Greeks, and later the Romans, we were attempting to build humanoid forms of automata that had the ability to mimic human movements. These types of humanoid automata are a far cry from the AI-driven robotics creations we see performing backflips and opening doors on ...