The increasing popularity of Robotic applications has seen use in healthcare, surgery, and
as an industrial tool. These robots are expected to be able to make physical contact with the …

As robots are developed to make life for humans easier, their ability to navigate and
manipulate the environment around them is crucial for a great number of tasks. Frameworks …

In recent years, autonomous robots have been increasingly deployed in unknown
environments. In order to cope with the unknown, the capability to train autonomously the …

To fulfill their potential in the manufacturing and retail sectors of the modern world,
autonomous machines must be able to perceive and react to contact with their surroundings …

Tactile sensing is important for robots to perceive the world as it captures the physical
surface properties of the object with which it is in contact and is robust to illumination and …

Multimodal tactile sensing could potentially enable robots to improve their performance at
manipulation tasks by rapidly discriminating between task-relevant objects. Data-driven …

Tactile sensing is a fast-developing research area that is important, eg, for autonomous
robot systems in the context of path planning and navigation in uncertain terrains. One …

Tactile sensors are the last frontier to robots that can handle everyday objects and interact
with humans through contact. To be effective, such sensors have to sense the geometry of …

Robots are expected to recognize the properties of objects in order to handle them safely
and efficiently in a variety of applications, such as health and elder care, manufacturing, or …

Tactile sensors are the last frontier to robots that can handle everyday objects and interact
with humans through contact. Robots are expected to recognize the properties of objects in …