The design of robots that interact autonomously with the environment and exhibit complex
behaviours is an open challenge that can benefit from understanding what makes living …

The desire for functional replacement of a missing hand is an ancient one. Historically,
humans have replaced a missing limb with a prosthesis for cosmetic, vocational, or personal …

The human sense of touch is essential for dexterous tool usage, spatial awareness, and
social communication. Equipping intelligent human-like androids and prosthetics with …

Sensory information processing in robot skins currently rely on a centralized approach
where signal transduction (on the body) is separated from centralized computation and …

This article presents a holistic approach to the engineering of an artificial robot skin for
robots. An example of a multimodal skin cell is given, one that supports multiple human-like …

Spatio-temporal pattern recognition is a fundamental ability of the brain which is required for
numerous real-world activities. Recent deep learning approaches have reached outstanding …

Bioelectronic medicine treats chronic diseases by sensing, processing, and modulating the
electronic signals produced in the nervous system of the human body, labeled'neural …

Developing artificial tactile sensing capabilities that rival human touch is a long-term goal in
robotics and prosthetics. Gradually more elaborate biomimetic tactile sensors are being …

In recent years, event-driven tactile data learning and event-driven spiking neural network
(SNN) characteristics have provided new methods for tactile event perception. However, it is …

Electrical resistance tomography (ERT) is an inferential imaging technique that has shown
promising results for enabling large-area tactile sensors constructed from a piezoresistive …