With the proliferation of flexible displays and the advances in smart materials, it is now
possible to create interactive devices that are not only flexible but can reconfigure into any …

Human skin perceives physical stimuli applied to the body and mitigates the risk of physical
interaction through its soft and resilient mechanical properties. Social robots would benefit …

Research on tactile sensing technology has been actively conducted in recent years to pave
the way for the next generation of highly intelligent devices. Sophisticated tactile sensing …

Electrical resistance tomography (ERT) can be used to create large-scale soft tactile sensors
that are flexible and robust. Good performance requires a fast and accurate map** from …

There has been considerable interest in piezoresistive nanocarbon-loaded polymer films for
structural health monitoring, including damage detection and strain monitoring. While good …

Wearable pressure sensors with ultrahigh sensitivity and flexibility have garnered
tremendous attention because of their abilities to mimic the human somatosensory system …

Tactile feedback plays an important role in hand manipulation, especially in the gras**
process which is one of the major functions of the hand. However, few commercially …

Any two objects in contact with each other exert a force that could be simply due to gravity or
mechanical contact, such as any ubiquitous object exerting weight on a platform or the …

Electrical resistance tomography (ERT) is an inferential imaging technique that has been
utilized to develop large-scale robotic skin due to its scalable and practical properties. The …

Touch modality identification has attracted increasing attention due to its importance in
human–robot interactions. There are three issues involved in the tactile perception for the …