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To effectively manipulate delicate and fragile objects, humans use sensory information from many modalities to concurrently control and sense position and force. They rely strongly on their sense of touch for perception, such as when assessing the stiffness of an object (Nisky et al., 2008, Nisky et al., 2010, Leib et al., 2015b), or attempting to determine the details of its shape. In addition, they use this information together with proprioception to plan their interaction with these objects, and flexibly combine force and position control depending on the task and the mechanical properties of the environment and objects (Westling and Johansson, 1984, Casadio et al., 2015). This is achieved using a variety of sensors that are distributed in the skin, joints, muscles, and tendons and with distributed sensorimotor loops that allow for an efficient encoding and integration of information and its use for planning and control of action (Wolpert et al., 1995, Kording and Wolpert, 2004,..

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