Soft robots have garnered interest for real-world applications because of their intrinsic safety
embedded at the material level. These robots use deformable materials capable of shape …

Soft robots have been extensively researched due to their flexible, deformable, and adaptive
characteristics. However, compared to rigid robots, soft robots have issues in modeling …

Human skin can sense subtle changes of both normal and shear forces (ie, self-decoupled)
and perceive stimuli with finer resolution than the average spacing between …

Soft sensors have been playing a crucial role in detecting different types of physical stimuli
to part or the entire body of a robot, analogous to mechanoreceptors or proprioceptors in …

Hand gesture recognition has attracted extensive research interest, as an essential
approach for human− machine interaction. The development of flexible strain sensors offers …

Soft sensors have continued growing interest in robotics, due to their ability to enable both
passive conformal contact from the material properties and active contact data from the …

Electronic skin (e-skin) mimics human skin and is an indispensable part of wearable
technology with widespread applications ranging from robotics to health care. Designing …

The emerging applications of collaborative robots (cobots) are spilling out from product
manufactories to service industries for human care, such as patient care for combating the …

Due to time-varying virtual drift in multimode processes, the performance of soft sensors will
degrade after online deployment. Traditional adaptive mechanisms have been developed to …

Soft electromechanical sensors have led to a new paradigm of electronic devices for novel
motion-based wearable applications in our daily lives. However, the vast amount of random …