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In the virtual world of computer models and remote-control robots, users generally lack tactile, or haptic, feedback, which makes delicate manipulative tasks difficult. Now researchers have developed a magnetically suspended joystick that allows a user to manipulate--and feel--objects in the virtual world.
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