Touch is one most of the important aspects of human life. Nearly all interactions, when
broken down, involve touch in one form or another. Recent advances in technology …

Research has increasingly focused on wearable systems that provide informative haptic
sensations to the hands, enhancing user interaction in virtual reality (VR) and augmented …

The interactions with touchscreens rely heavily on vision: The virtual buttons and virtual
sliders on a touchscreen provide no mechanical sense of the object they seek to represent …

Virtual and augmented reality headsets are making significant progress in audio-visual
immersion and consumer adoption. However, their haptic immersion remains low, due in …

This paper reports a soft fingertip-mountable tactile actuator based on a Dielectric Elastomer
Actuator (DEA), which exhibits high output force over a wide frequency range with a …

Smartwatches gained popularity in the mainstream, making them into today's de-facto
wearables. Despite advancements in sensing, haptics on smartwatches is still restricted to …

Haptic gloves have enabled the immersive and realistic sense of interacting with objects in
virtual reality (VR) by providing coordinated haptic sensation with visual information …

The emergence of vibrotactile feedback in hand wearables enables immersive virtual reality
(VR) experience with whole-hand haptic rendering. However, existing haptic rendering …

Here we present a new type of soft motors, termed Electric Field Induced Mechanical
Flap** (EFIMF) motors, which are robust and present versatile potential applications. The …

Tactile perception of softness serves a critical role in the survival, well-being, and social
interaction among various species, including humans. This perception informs activities from …