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Scientific reports
Dec 13, 2022
Programmable matter can change its shape, stiffness or other physical properties upon command. Previous work has shown contactless optically controlled matter or magnetic actuation, but the former is limited in strength and the latter in spatial reso...
Scientific reports
Nov 14, 2022
Artificially created tactile feedback is in high demand due to fast developments in robotics, remote control in medicine, virtual reality, and smart electronics. Despite significant progress, high-quality haptic feedback devices remain challenging ma...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Nov 10, 2022
The implementation of robotic systems for minimally invasive surgery and medical procedures is an active topic of research in recent years. One of the most common procedures is the palpation of soft tissues to identify their mechanical characteristic...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Nov 1, 2022
Aiming at the problem of flexible sliding tactile sensing for the actual grasp of intelligent robot fingers, a double-layer sliding tactile sensor based on fiber Bragg grating (FBG) for robot fingers is proposed in this paper. Firstly, the optimal em...
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...