Soft robots have garnered interest for real-world applications because of their intrinsic safety
embedded at the material level. These robots use deformable materials capable of shape …

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 …

During social interaction humans extract important information from tactile stimuli that
enriches their understanding of the interaction. This process depends, however, not only on …

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 …

Flexible smart sensing skin is a key enabling technology for the future “Fly-by-Feel” control
of morphing aircraft. It represents the next-generation skin of aircraft that can exhibit a more …

In the past few years a new scenario for robot-based applications has emerged. Service and
mobile robots have opened new market niches. Also, new frameworks for shop-floor robot …

This article presents a novel robot skin that integrates both proximity and tactile sensors in a
nursing robot to maximize the safety of patient transfer tasks. Two types of sensors are …

We present a learning-based method, namely GeoUDF, to tackle the long-standing and
challenging problem of reconstructing a discrete surface from a sparse point cloud. To be …

In this letter, we present a new soft and flexible sensor which can reconstruct its surface
shape in real time. A single-core optical fiber with fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) is capable of …

With infinite degrees of freedom, soft robots are expected to achieve dexterous and complex
tasks, but this also puts forward higher requirements for their sensing capabilities. An …