Conventional industrial robots are unable to guarantee the inherent safety when working
together with humans due to the use of rigid components and the lack of force sensation. To …

Soft robotics has proven the capability of robots interacting with their environments including
humans by taking advantage of the property of high compliance in recent years. Soft …

Robots have taken the place of human operators in hazardous and challenging jobs
requiring high dexterity in manipulation, and robots with skin for force and tactile sensing …

Whole-arm tactile feedback is crucial for robots to ensure safe physical interaction with their
surroundings. This paper introduces CushSense, a fabric-based soft and stretchable tactile …

As the safety of a human body is the main priority while interacting with robots, the field of
tactile sensors has expanded for acquiring tactile information and ensuring safe human …

The fourth revolution of healthcare technologies, ie, Healthcare 4.0, is putting robotics into
human-dominated environments. In such a context, one of the main challenges is to develop …

We propose the use of bio-inspired robotics equipped with soft sensor technologies to gain
a better understanding of the mechanics and control of animal movement. Soft robotic …

The development of social robots aims to create machines that can interact and collaborate
with people in a natural way. To achieve this, social robots must be designed to make …

Inflatable devices have been used in various applications due to their low cost, light weight,
simplicity, and ability to compactly stow yet deploy to large sizes with complex shape …

Soft sensors, taking advantage of their inherent mechanical compliance stemming from the
material itself, have demonstrated excellent adaptability to the external stim-uli. Leveraging …