Realizing full coverage, low-maintenance, and low-cost tactile skin is a de facto design
dream since the invention of robots. It ensures safety and enables collaborative work …

A wide variety of tactile (touch) sensors exist today for robotics and related applications.
They make use of various transduction methods, smart materials and engineered structures …

Whole-arm tactile feedback is crucial for robots to ensure safe physical interaction with their
surroundings. This paper introduces CushSense, a fabric-based soft and stretchable tactile …

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 …

Robots are now working more and more closely with humans outside of traditional fences in
industrial scenes. Their real-time tactile interaction perception is crucial to the safety of …

Tactile sensors are becoming more prevalent in numerous research domains, including
robotics, human-robot interaction, and grasping. As the development of customized soft …

The sense of touch allows individuals to physically interact with and better perceive their
environment. Touch is even more crucial for robots, as robots equipped with thorough tactile …

Camera-based tactile sensing is a low-cost, popular approach to obtain highly detailed
contact geometry information. However, most existing camera-based tactile sensors are …

Safe, intuitive human-robot interaction requires that robots intelligently interface with their
environments, ideally sensing and localizing physical contact across their link surfaces. We …

The tactile sensing capabilities of human hands are essential in daily activities.
Simultaneously perceiving normal and shear forces via the mechanoreceptors integrated …