Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Oct 21, 2022
Tactile technologies that can identify human body features are valuable in clinical diagnosis and human-machine interactions. Previously, cutting-edge tactile platforms have been able to identify structured non-living objects; however, identification...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Oct 16, 2022
Tactile internet applications allow robotic devices to be remotely controlled over a communication medium with an unnoticeable time delay. In bilateral communication, the acceptable round trip latency is usually 1 ms up to 10 ms, depending on the app...
Scientific reports
Oct 10, 2022
Human-robot interaction technology has contributed to improving sociality for humanoid robots. At scales far from human scales, a microrobot can interact with an environment in a small world. Microsensors have been applied to measurement of forces by...
ACS nano
Sep 27, 2022
In the long pursuit of smart robotics, it has been envisioned to empower robots with human-like senses, especially vision and touch. While tremendous progress has been made in image sensors and computer vision over the past decades, tactile sense abi...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Sep 16, 2022
Pearl detection with a counter (PDC) in a noncontact and high-precision manner is a challenging task in the area of commercial production. Additionally, sea pearls are considered to be quite valuable, so the traditional manual counting methods are no...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Sep 15, 2022
Dexterous manipulation in robotic hands relies on an accurate sense of artificial touch. Here we investigate neuromorphic tactile sensation with an event-based optical tactile sensor combined with spiking neural networks for edge orientation detectio...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Sep 8, 2022
The sense of touch is fundamental for a one-to-one mapping between the environment and a robot that physically interacts with the environment. Herein, we describe a tactile fingertip design that can robustly detect interaction forces given data colle...
Nature communications
Sep 5, 2022
Advancements of virtual reality technology pave the way for developing wearable devices to enable somatosensory sensation, which can bring more comprehensive perception and feedback in the metaverse-based virtual society. Here, we propose augmented t...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Aug 29, 2022
A human can infer the magnitude of interaction force solely based on visual information because of prior knowledge in human-robot interaction (HRI). A method of reconstructing tactile information through cross-modal signal processing is proposed in t...
Nature communications
Aug 29, 2022
Among kinds of flexible tactile sensors, piezoelectric tactile sensor has the advantage of fast response for dynamic force detection. However, it suffers from low sensitivity at high-frequency dynamic stimuli. Here, inspired by finger structure-rigid...