Starting from human¿ sense of touch,¿ this paper reviews the state of tactile sensing in
robotics. The physiology, coding, and transferring tactile data and perceptual importance of …

Humans can handle and manipulate objects with ease; however, human dexterity has yet to
be matched by artificial systems. Receptors in our fingers and hands provide essential tactile …

Recent technological advances enable gripper-equipped robots to perform many tasks
traditionally associated with the human hand, allowing the use of grippers in a wide range of …

In this paper, we present a new generation of active tactile modules (ie, HEX-O-SKIN), which
are developed in order to approach multimodal whole-body-touch sensation for humanoid …

A new flexible piezoelectric tactile sensor array based on polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) film
is proposed for measuring three-axis dynamic contact force distribution. The array consists …

Capacitive technology allows building sensors that are small, compact and have high
sensitivity. For this reason it has been widely adopted in robotics. In a previous work we …

A novel self-sensing method based on the dielectric elastomer (DE) actuator/sensor, was
successfully developed and evaluated in order to extract accurate displacement information …

Recent decades have seen significant progress in the field of artificial hands. Most of the
surveys, which try to capture the latest developments in this field, focused on actuation and …

During the last decades, tactile sensors based on different sensing principles have been
developed due to the growing interest in robotics and, mainly, in medical applications …

Surface texture discrimination using artificial tactile sensors has attracted increasing
attentions in the past decade as it can endow robot systems with a key missing ability …