Giving robots touch allows them to be gentle and to handle things that come in many shapes and materials.

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The gentle vegetarians eat up to 45 pounds a day of things like bamboo shoots, wild celery and berries.

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They combine a demiurgic, Caligari-like mastery over their creations with the gentle dream archeology of Joseph Cornell: their puppets look less like things invented than like things discovered.

NEWYORKER: Tales of the Brothers Quay

It turned out that the organizer was someone she had known in school, and though the woman seemed not to remember Eva, she had been very kind, and the other bell ringers gentle and considerate, always ready to help her out, never noticing when she got things wrong.

NEWYORKER: The Bell Ringer