Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Mar 11, 2021
Soft sensors are essential for robotic systems to safely interact with humans and the environment. Although significant research has been carried out in the field of soft tactile sensing, most of these sensors are restricted to a predefined geometry ...
Skin research and technology : official journal of International Society for Bioengineering and the Skin (ISBS) [and] International Society for Digital Imaging of Skin (ISDIS) [and] International Society for Skin Imaging (ISSI)
Mar 2, 2021
BACKGROUND: For virtual skincare using a touch feedback interface, reconstructing a 3D skin tactile surface from a mobile skin image is imperative for a dermatologist to palpate the skin surface that presents tactile characteristics of the subcutaneo...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Feb 24, 2021
Just as the sense of touch complements vision in various species, several robots could benefit from advanced tactile sensors, in particular when operating under poor visibility. A prominent tactile sense organ, frequently serving as a natural paragon...
Nature communications
Feb 18, 2021
The integration and interaction of vision, touch, hearing, smell, and taste in the human multisensory neural network facilitate high-level cognitive functionalities, such as crossmodal integration, recognition, and imagination for accurate evaluation...
Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)
Feb 8, 2021
As a surrogate for human tactile cognition, an artificial tactile perception and cognition system are proposed to produce smooth/soft and rough tactile sensations by its user's tactile feeling; and named this system as "tactile avatar". A piezoelectr...
ACS applied materials & interfaces
Jan 29, 2021
In this study, a self-sorting sensor was developed with the ability to distinguish between different pressure regimes and translate the pressure to electrical signals. Specifically, the self-sorting sensor can distinguish between soft and hard pressu...
Soft robotics
Jan 18, 2021
Recent studies have been inspired by natural whiskers for a proposal of tactile sensing system to augment the sensory ability of autonomous robots. In this study, we propose a novel artificial soft whisker sensor that is not only flexible but also ad...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Dec 27, 2020
Transfer of learning or leveraging a pre-trained network and fine-tuning it to perform new tasks has been successfully applied in a variety of machine intelligence fields, including computer vision, natural language processing and audio/speech recogn...
IEEE transactions on haptics
Dec 25, 2020
Humans can perceive tactile directionality with angular perception thresholds of 14-40° via fingerpad skin displacement. Using deformable, artificial tactile sensors, the ability to perceive tactile directionality was developed for a robotic system t...
Soft robotics
Dec 18, 2020
Bringing tactile sensation to robotic hands will allow for more effective grasping, along with a wide range of benefits of human-like touch. Here, we present a three-dimensional-printed, three-fingered tactile robot hand comprising an OpenHand ModelO...