This paper deals with the problem of using the tactile feedback generated by a robotic skin
for discriminating a human hand touch from a generic contact. Humans understand …

This article deals with the problem of the recognition of human hand touch by a robot
equipped with large area tactile sensors covering its body. This problem is relevant in the …

Human-in-the-loop task involving soft contact has become common in robotic application,
especially in physical human-robot interaction. In this task, it is required that robot would …

Human-robot interaction in a shared workspace permits and often even requires physical
contact between humans and robots. A key technology to ensure that physical human robot …

Safety of human‐robot physical interaction is enabled not only by suitable robot control
strategies but also by suitable sensing technologies. For example, if distributed tactile …

Touch perception is an important sense to model in humanoid robots to interact physically
and socially with humans. We present a neural controller that can adapt the compliance of …

Whole-body control in unknown environments is challenging: Unforeseen contacts with
obstacles can lead to poor tracking performance and potential physical damages of the …

We develop an optical multimodal-sensing skin for fingers of a robotic gripper. This sensor
consists of a transparent skin made with a marked soft elastic outer layer on a hard layer …

Tactile sensing is the current challenge in robotics and object manipulation by machines.
The robot's agile interaction with the environment requires pressure sensors to detect not …

Handshakes are common greetings, and humans therefore have strong priors of what a
handshake should feel like. This makes it challenging to create compelling and realistic …