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 …

Soft robots have gained significant attention owing to their intrinsically safe and elastic
structure. However, merely ensuring safety at the material and structural levels is just the first …

In the past decades, tactile sensors have been well developed and utilized in many fields,
including intelligent robots, human–computer interaction, health care, and recreational …

Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) based tactile sensor offers significant benefits on
practical deployment because of its sparse electrode allocation, including durability, large …

Electronic skins (e-skins) aim to replicate the capabilities of human skin by integrating
electronic components and advanced materials into a flexible, thin, and stretchable …

Using tactile signal is a natural way to perceive potential dangers and safeguard robots. One
possible method is to use full-body tactile sensors on the robot and perform safety …

Tactile information is essential for safe physical interactions between humans and robots.
However, for all kinds of tactile sensing principles, it is still challenging to monitor contact …

Electrical resistance tomography (ERT) is an inferential imaging technique that has shown
promising results for enabling large-area tactile sensors constructed from a piezoresistive …

This work reports an innovative framework toward the practical implementation of tactile
sensors based on electrical impedance tomography. Particularly, we tested our framework …

The technique of electrical impedance tomography (EIT) has been recognized as a
promising method to design tactile sensors with continuous sensing capability over a large …