Efforts to design devices emulating complex cognitive abilities and response processes of
biological systems have long been a coveted goal. Recent advancements in flexible …

Robotic equipment has been playing a central role since the proposal of smart
manufacturing. Since the beginning of the first integration of industrial robots into production …

Human skin can sense subtle changes of both normal and shear forces (ie, self-decoupled)
and perceive stimuli with finer resolution than the average spacing between …

Pressure sensors play an integral role in a wide range of applications, such as soft robotics
and health monitoring. In order to meet this demand, many groups microengineer the active …

Perceiving and handling deformable objects is an integral part of everyday life for humans.
Automating tasks such as food handling, garment sorting, or assistive dressing requires …

Robotic perception can have simple and effective sensing functions that are unreachable for
humans using only the isolated tactile perception method, with the assistance of a …

The hand endows us with unparalleled precision and versatility in our interactions with
objects, from mundane activities such as grasping to extraordinary ones such as virtuoso …

An artificial muscle capable of shape programmability, deformation-locking capacity without
needing continuous external energy, and self-sensing capability is highly desirable yet …

Achieving human-level dexterity is an important open problem in robotics. However, tasks of
dexterous hand manipulation even at the baby level are challenging to solve through …

Dexterous manipulation of the robot is an important part of realizing intelligence, but
manipulators can only perform simple tasks such as sorting and packing in a structured …